> <flog horse>
> This is rather microsoft-like in tactics. It's not intentional on
> netraverse's part (unlike microsoft's forced upgrades). But I'm a little
> upset at only being able to effectively use win4lin for just a few months
This is where I see the complaints to be misguided. The
"microsoft-like" tactic is that of Linux, not Netraverse. Microsoft
has a long standing history of changing its operating system and
requiring all other software manufacturers to have to shuffle around
and come up with upgrades that work with the new OS. I'll point out
here that we've all had to pay for those upgrades and did so without
faulting Word Perfect, Lotus or anyone else who was forced to change
how their software interacted with the operating system.
What we have here is exactly the same thing. Netraverse developed an
emulator that works peachy with 2.2x versions of Linux. but the Linux
development group decided they needed to change the operating system
to allow a variety of things to be done. It was THAT change, not some
sinister marketing plan guided by Netraverse, that has resulted in the
current situation with current versions of Win4Lin not being able to
be made compatible with Linux 2.4.
> when I paid with the xpectation (and netraverse implied this) that I could
> continue to use this with 2.4. It's like microsoft saying, well, if you
> want to use our latest office xp, you'll have to upgrade to windows 2000
No, it's like Corel Corp saying "If you want to upgrade to Windows 98,
you're going to have to buy an upgrade for your Word Perfect because
the older versions are no longer compatible because the operating
system manufacturer has made it so." For your analogy to be true to
this situation Netraverse would have to have control over what occurs
in kernel design. They have neither control or those changes or the
schedule by which they occur.
As with the people who still run Windows 3.1 because they don't want
to upgrade a lot of software, you have that option with Linux as well.
Cheers --- Larry
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