In article <2070262.SKD2KPVSPY@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
> Please do not port software to Windows!
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> | While the GNU General Public License expressly prohibits me from
> | denying you the freedom to port software protected by it to Windows,
> | I feel that you do great damage to the world if you do. Let me explain.
> |
> | Windows is a proprietary environment. They don't give you the source
> | code, and they do anything in their power to limit your freedom. They
> | even try to limit what you can do with the software you rightfully
> | bought from them. So, supporting them in any way is bad for the
> | world, because it encourages others to try to limit others'
> | freedoms (it worked great for Microsoft, so it must be a good
> | idea, right?).
> `----
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> http://www.fefe.de/nowindows/
>
> Pick a License, Any License
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | It's a minefield, people. All I'm saying is this: the next time you
> | release code into the wild, do your fellow developers a favor and
> | pick a license-- any license.
> `----
>
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000833.html
>
Keeping the utter rotten garbage called windows away from Linux sounds
like a great idea.
If someone needs some reliable computing done, then the solution is to
replace the windows scum with stable Linux.
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