In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/17/2006
   at 07:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Consider availability of viewers.  Who's going to provide a viewer
>for WSA for Linux on PowerPC?

If there isn't already a WSA for Linux, how hard would it be for IBM
to port the one on Unix?

>HTML viewers already exist and are available in open source.

Web-based software suffers from the "everything looks like a nail"
syndrome. Nor is compatibility a given.

>It might be more acceptable if a WSA viewer were available in
>portable open source.

It's already acceptable, IMHO, but making it open source would be
great.
 
-- 
     Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
     ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> 
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)

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