Products like these provide people with access to products that are 
otherwise not available (a good thing). 
BUT!!!!!
For those of us who know about FX32,  they also do not provide any 
incentive for the software vendor to port to native Linux. That's pretty 
much the reason why Corel, for instance, no longer provides a native 
WordPerfect build. 


On 24 Jun 2002 at 14:22, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
>   Agreed.  I like the fact that products such as VMware, Win4Lin,
> Crossover Office, etc. exist for the simple fact that it does provide a
> 'bridge,' so to speak that gives some people the possibility of using
> Linux when they have one (or maybe two or three) application that they
> are required to use that only runs on M$ OSes.

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