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Re: No way!
by Debian User on Sunday 20/Aug/2006, @14:53

There is now way, you could stop the convergence of operating systems. They are converging on several levels:

a) Virtualization. Every OS can run any other mainstream OS now.
b) Emulation. You can run Linux programs on Windows and Windows programs on Linux fairly well now.
c) Porting. More and more software starts to work on both platforms.

At the end, when people will look at things like cost, there is no way, a non-free OS can compete except where there is "piracy".

Being on Windows will attract a huge host of application developers, that will benefit KHTML (konqueror), etc. the mind share of many people is there now, and picking them up where they are, and not where they should be, is the right thing to do. Like working on Koffice :-)

When KOffice runs on Windows, this will HURT the company Microsoft so bad, you cannot imagine. OpenOffice is a monster, KOffice may just be what people want.

One has to wonder, how long people can sustain to develop costly software where there is free alternatives that are tendentially better.

And I suspect, KDE on Windows will see a influx of developers who pick up with their know how. Most of the hard issues are solved by QT already, Many of the Linuxisms have been seen in BSD and Solaris supports. So it's not going to be too bad...

Yours, Kay

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Re: No way!
by cobalt on Monday 21/Aug/2006, @01:01

word!

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