On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 18:21, No Free Lunch wrote:
> >> Another alternative is to buy the crossover plugin from
> >> codeweavers.com... uses wine to allow windows plugins to run under linux
> >> with netscape 4.x, mozilla, konq, etc. It's only something like $20USD
> >> as well, so a good deal, and support of a linux company.
>
> > Yes, and support of a closed source company that keeps you windows dependent.
> > No, thanks.
>
> Crap-crud.
>
> Its an excellent, cheap piece of s/w that allows you to *use*
> those closed source plug-ins with your *open* source s/w like
> Mozilla.
>
> I don't like M$ any more than the next Linux guy, but sometimes
> the anti-M$ religious fanatics really make me laugh.
it's not that simple unfortunately...
many linux developers think/feel that project like wine actually make
more bad than good:
if you can run all your games / applications /whatever in emulators,
noone will complain at the game/application/whatever-developers for a
native linux version => there won't be any linux version.
that's why for example:
sending those 20$ to mplayer-or-xine developers could be a better way
to get proper quicktime support
i'm not saying they're right, but there is some truth in those opinions.
gabor
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