You know, I wonder if any Linux companies are big enough to buy them
out? Infact, IBM wants to help us Linux lovers so bad, maybe we could
approach them to buy Netraverse and open source Win4Lin.
Anyone up for forming a lobbying group? I'm game.
On 07 Apr 2001 00:24:40 -0700, Brandon Darbro wrote:
> Oh don't worry... You won't need to upgrade for some time. If their
> quickness to support Mandrake 7.2 was any indicator... Support for a
> Mandrake 8 kernel shouldn't be ready until Feb. next year. ;)
>
> *Brandon
>
> - Just callin' them as I see's 'em.
>
> On 07 Apr 2001 12:22:50 +1000, Tim Fairchild wrote:
> > On Friday 06 April 2001 20:46, you wrote:
> > > What's the brouhaha about?
> > >
> > > Look, netraverse is a commercial company. That means that they need to
> > > SELL STUFF to stay in business. SELLING STUFF, as opposed to giving it
> > > away, is not necessarily a bad thing; most of us make our living selling
> > > something, even if it's just the time we put into a project.
> > > . . .
> > > OK, so I paid $50 for win4lin, and got to use it for 6 months before
> > > having to buy an upgrade. That's $10 a months or less - heck, I spend
> >
> > Oh poo. Due to all the trouble getting a patch for mandrake 7.2 I DID NOT get
> > 6 months out of v2.0 More like 3 months if that. And it was a total PAIN IN
> > THE ARSE to get working, downloading bits and pieces from everywhere. And I
> > paid more then $50 bucks over here in Oz and I don't have a lot of money to
> > throw arround and I do expect a bit more life out of a product...
> >
> > And tho they are calling this product v3.0 it is really just another upgrade
> > - with features I don't even want or need. I don't care if it's called 1.2,
> > 2.1 or 3.0. I will whinge about it as I think it sux.
> >
> > As for the win 95 to win 98 upgrade - well, actually my win 95 applications
> > still run on my win 98 and win ME boxes.
> >
> > Tho win4lin does work when it gets going, these first v1.0 and v2.0 Beta's
> > we've been using have been an install nightmare unless you are running an
> > absolute basic stock install of a distro they choose to support. If you use
> > anything else or have even a slight custom kernel, like for sound support or
> > scsi-emu - or a current kernel they haven't supported yet - then it's a big
> > job to install.
> >
> > Compare the install to vmware sometime and see why they can charge the big
> > bucks...
> >
> > And this is just feedback for them. I don't want anything, just making a
> > point here. Some of us linux people have very little use for windows, so if
> > we don't get the value out of a product we'll just drop it. Simple as that. I
> > have to sit back and see if it's worth paying out more money to upgrade a
> > product I shouldn't need to upgrade so that I can run one application I can
> > just as easily run on another machine in the network.
> >
> > tim
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