On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote:

> There have been some nibbles for porting GNOME stuff to Windows, to achieve
> the same kind of advantage that OpenOffice has... Hook 'em where they're
> comfortable, let them know it's even better on a Free platform.

That's basically my plan.  If I can show "here's an OSS[1] program which
performs as well as the proprietary one.  You'd like something to be a bit
different?  Sure, let me just tweak that... better?  Excellent.  Oh, by the
way, there's a whole Operating System which works the same way."  Then I
start pressuring all of the ISVs we deal with, to either "shape up or f**k
off" WRT Linux.  Residual stuff we can run on a Win2K server with TS and
rdesktop on Linux.  Voila!  Company transferred to Linux, my life becomes
about 100 times easier...

- Matt


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