On Tuesday 03 July 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > ran perfectly in wine (whatever is current). > > > > That should not be used as an excuse for the ATO not to provide a Linux > > port. > > Out of interest, why is a native Linux binary better than Wine? > Especially if the ATO supported Linux via Wine? > > Of course, since my taxes have paid for this, I would have > preferred that the application be free software.
Because 'works perfectly in wine' is usually a euphemism for 'didn't crash within the first 100 seconds'. Years of both cross-over and of wine has made me shun them unless absolutely forced. One needs only to experience the excelant job done by the census folk, I used firefox and linux but every combination I heard about was good, to conclude that the census programmers were much cleverer than the ATO's, ummmmm ah ha, programmers James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
