>-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa >Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:44 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Garrett Cooper; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? > > >On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> >> My opinion on WINE is that it merely harms people who are writing >> software >> for FreeBSD. If I write a wordprocessor for Linux or FreeBSD >and try to >> sell it, why would a customer buy it when he can just use his >Microsoft >> Word under Wine? >Don't forget Wine, Qemu, etc. are pieces of software themselves, >written by great programmers and hackers for Linux and FreeBSD. >They weren't discouraged from anything: They do contribute >to the open source community. >
I don't but there's so much other stuff that needs programming attention that I think it's too bad that all that talent isn't working on that instead. Ted _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
