Gus Wirth wrote:
At 15:04 10/31/2005 -0800, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Gus Wirth wrote:
Runs Microsoft Office. Runs WMV3 format movies. Runs tons of games.
Can purchase music from iTunes, Yahoo, and Napster.
All of which can be done with Crossover Office ($40 from the Codeweavers
folks <http://www.codeweavers.com> ).
So explain how this is an improvement for most people? Most people can
get an OEM version of Windows for about $40 or so if they buy a computer.
There is no prize for second place in all of this. Either Linux can
replace Windows, or it cannot.
Don't know about the DRM, but you can get Linux support for WMV3 in Xine,
mplayer, WINE, and VideoLAN Client by loading the native MS Windows DLL.
And that requires that I purchase Windows to be legal, last I checked.
-a
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