On Thu, 2005-10-13 at 11:51 -0400, John W. Kennedy wrote:
> James White wrote:
> > Michael, I gotta ask a personal question:  Why on EARTH are you using 
> > Windows 
> > if you are already an expert in UNIX? 
> 
> I'm not Michael, but I'm still on Windows because I need a decent 
> WYSIWYG music typesetter (I use Sibelius), 
http://www.quercite.com/pmw.html
http://mscore.sourceforge.net/
http://developer.berlios.de/projects/noteedit
http://lilypond.org/web/

They are not as easy to use as sibleius but all are free and lilypond
produces excellent output.


> Palm Desktop,

Do not know what this is but http://www.jpilot.org/ would appear to fit
the requirements.

>  and a GPS/road 
> atlas program (I use DeLorme Street Atlas USA). The first two I could 
> get with MacOS, but for the third I know of no alternative to Windows at 
> all.
> 

http://tuxmobil.org/navigation_gps.html seems to list many. In
particular http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/ should be of interest


> (For what it's worth, since the revelation that Microsoft is supporting 
> a creationist think-tank to the tune of $1,000,000 a year, I've sworn 
> that I will never buy another Windows system, no matter what I have to 
> sacrifice. But, if things remain as they are, it /will/ cripple me 
> considerably.)


I think this should give more to think about at any rate.
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