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Re: Call to Avoid Porting Free Software to Windows

__/ [ Martha Adams ] on Thursday 05 April 2007 06:08 \__

> As I see things, there are also questions about what does this do to
> your work; is your environment perhaps constrained?  My more
> moderate take on this topic is that bringing open-source into a
> Windows environment serves as a useful step in the right
> direction.  In my own system here, I've an emacs which improves
> on the really crummy Microsoft editors; and in fact, I've a sizable
> Cygwin import that gives me a good command-line environment
> where I do my most serious work.  To me, this arrangement makes
> a good adjustment to a temporary but compelling reality.
> 
> Cheers -- Martha Adams      [cola 2007 Apr 5]

Just to clarify again (for Ramon and yourself), I think that porting free
software to Windows is a necessary evil that's very welcomed. Not everything
that I post do I necessary agree with, but it's interesting to see how
radical some people have become. That said, if you follow the link you'll
see that the guy did not want /his/ software ported to Windows, _by a third
party_, which I think is fair enough, but against the licence. It felt to
him like other people 'bastradised' his software and brought it to the wrong
audience, promoting an 'agenda' he did not agree with. Imagine Microsoft
nicking the Linux kernel just as they used some BSD code.... it would lead
to a riot (a virtual one of course).

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