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____/ Homer on Saturday 24 January 2009 05:34 : \____
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>
> Verily I say unto thee, that Rex Ballard spake thusly:
>>> Homer wrote:
>>>>> Rex Ballard wrote:
>
>>>>>> Even Linux users like to have Windows capabilities.
>>>>
>>>> Yes, that was a rather odd statement.
>>
>>>> What exactly are Windows' "capabilities"?
>>
>> By this I mean the ability to run applications originally written for
>> Windows. Applications like Turbo Tax, Quicken or QuickBooks, old
>> share-ware programs, video games, cheap educational software, and
>> legacy corporate applications written to the Windows API.
>>
>> If WINE could do that with fewer exceptions than Vista, corporations
>> would be making mass migrations to Linux today.
>
> Yes, but the substantive point is that you claimed "*Linux* users like
> to have Windows capabilities".
>
> If they are /already/ using Linux, then they already have the means to
> supplant Windows' archaic "capabilities" with alternatives, and indeed
> for the sake of interoperability with their Linux systems, they /must/
> do so. Expecting them to run an API emulator to continue supporting an
> outdated Windows application, is rather less prudent than switching to
> a modern, Open Standards-based, multi-platform application which works
> seamlessly in a heterogeneous environment. The only remaining thing to
> consider, is format conversion, but any half-decent SoA should provide
> that kind of automation. There's "training", of course, but then these
> users are already "Linux users" after all, so the question of training
> is somewhat moot.
>
> I think that you meant to write "corporate users like to have Windows'
> capabilities", or more accurately "some users who are either locked in
> to proprietary formats or ignorant of alternatives, continue to demand
> support for outdated Windows applications, and thus can only use those
> outdated Windows applications under Linux if they use emulation".
Microsoft went out of its way to ensure its bad practices get propagated like
this.
"Another suggestion In this mail was that we can’t make our own unilateral
extensions to HTML I was going to say this was wrong and correct this also."
--Bill Gates
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