After takin' a swig o' grog, Rainer Weikusat belched out
this bit o' wisdom:
> Matt <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> Could you please stop crossposting this drivel to
> comp.os.linux.development.apps?
>
>> Well now why do you think a cross-platform advocate might ask it?
>
> I think that a MS-advocate, as you quite obviously are, asks such
> questions in order to again deliver one of his boilerplate speeches.
Ouch!
>> Along the lines I intended, let's try this: Show me a Linux-only app
>> that is growing better or being used more _on Linux_ than an
>> equivalent cross-platform app is growing or being used _on Linux_.
>
> Show me a popular cross-platform app which is being used 'on Linux'
> (whatever that is supposed to mean) which wasn't originally ported to
> Windows in order to supplant the native offerings with popular, free
> (here solely refering to money) alternatives.
>
> [...]
>
>> It will help eliminate the increasingly-rare delusion that there is
>> some kind of benefit to Microsoft in building a cross-platform app
>> instead of a Linux-only app.
>
> "It will help to eliminate the delusion that platform-vendors need ISV
> support in order to sell their platforms to customers"?
>
> WTF?
Ah, Rainer has a moment of clarity.
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