On 03/07/07, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:22 +1000, Howard Lowndes 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?
From my personal gut feeling - Wine can also run viruses. Once you put it on
your Linux system you are getting your hardware that much closer to the wonderful malware-infested world of Windows. Of course, since my taxes have paid for this, I would have
preferred that the application be free software.
Or maybe define/use an open protocol (e.g. XML over HTTPS? AJAX, ATOM 2.0, whatever) which anyone can implement. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
