I agree somewhat. I don't expect a free upgrade. But I do expect to pay
an upgrade price for an upgrade. I think that Netraverse would be wise to
treat its existing customer base well, because we are the ones who are
recommending or not recommending this product to friends, coworkers and
folks on the net wanting to try out linux and still have windows
capabilties. The features of 3.0 are impressive. But perhaps it's a
little late, unless it now supports ME, since Windows 98 is no longer
available on new machines and is fading away (not that ME is a real
upgrade). Soon microsoft will be wooing people to a nt-based platform,
XP, designed for home, gaming, and professional use. It will be a huge
challenge to make win4lin run that OS. I am willing to shell out for
win4lin 3.0, if anything to help netraverse continue to develop exciting
software to bridge the gap between linux and windows.
I saw OS X in action as was very impressed. Here's somethig OS X does
that win4lin could do for windows on Linux. If you want to run a
"classic" mac app, it boots up, in a little vm, OS 9. The programs,
though, can run in windows on the OS X desktop, so you don't even know
you're running old apps in a vm. Suppose win4lin could use a special
graphics driver and intercommunications system to grab a windows window
from the win4lin desktop (hidden) and draw it in a normal X window. Then
have a simple mechanism for doing clip board stuff, and we'd have the same
effect. The communications mechanism could pass commands back and forth,
to launch programs, etc.
I will watch win4lin's progress with interest.
Michael
On Sat, 24 Mar 2001, Steve Loft wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2001 11:19 pm, you wrote:
>
> > NeTraverse already has the Win4Lin enabled 2.4.x generic kernels, why
> > can't I download them today? The answer is that the 2.4.x Win4Lin
> > enabled kernels require the 3.0 release.
>
> I think I'm a little disappointed with this. I got the free upgrade
> from version 1 to 2, for which I'm grateful. I'm not expecting any
> further additional functionality for free, but this policy does mean
> that now I'm running kernel 2.4.x, I have a paid for piece of software
> that I'll never be able to use again.
>
> I didn't expect the software I bought to time out. Does anyone think
> I'm being unreasonable?
>
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