On Friday 21 December 2007 08:42, David Harvey wrote: > I've said it before and I'll say it again: if someone can make > working on windows as easy and legal for me as "ssh sage.math", then > I would probably be able to find some time to help out. If this can > be made to happen then I think you will find more people interested > in working on the port.
The irony is that both "easy" and "legal" are not so trivially attainable with *remote* use of windows. For instance, the cygwin ssh service on windows sucks (because most everything with cygwin sucks.) I use rdesktop in another life to connect to a windows machine at times, but that's treading dangerous ground legally because of client access licenses. It may be that there are licenses available that make rdesktop usage entirely legal for non-windows users, but I don't know. It's like MS really doesn't want windows to be useful or something. Perhaps I speak as a very jaded ex-windows user, but really I don't think I'm too far off. Note that I speak of remote use in the above paragraph -- I can't really fault someone for using windows locally, but I really can't comprehend computer usage habits for which one is always local to the machine in question. Hence, I use linux. -- Joel --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ and http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
