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Re: Konqueror Gets Activ(eX)ated
by not me on Tuesday 10/Jul/2001, @03:16

>It insults our non-ia32 users. Wine is not portable.

Okay. First of all, you're taking this _way_ too seriously. Nobody's insulting anyone here. Now that you've cooled off a bit, think. A feature that benefits some people makes Konqueror a better browser. Unfortunately, that feature is not available to you; however, that doesn't make the feature bad or detrimental to Konqueror, or insulting to you.

Also, check out Bochs. (http://bochs.sourceforge.net) There is hope!

>Is ActiveX superior to KParts?

ActiveX is a different solution to a different problem. No one is suggesting giving up KParts now that we have ActiveX! The _only_ reason we want ActiveX is to be able to watch Shockwave movies and Sorensen/Windows Media encoded videos. We would prefer a *nix native solution if one came along, but we do what we can with what we've got.

>How can things like the Shockwave player be "popular," when there was no way to run them on Unix before now?

Shockwave is popular *on the Net*! Not, obviously, for KDE users, as they couldn't access it. Duh!

>To portray the KDE community, and KDE apps, as aspiring to be Windows, is insulting.

We don't aspire to be Windows. We aspire to watch Shockwave/Sorensen/WMP web content as Microsoft goes down in flames!

Unfortunately, I fear IHBT. Oh well, it was fun actually :-)

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Re: Konqueror Gets Activ(eX)ated
by Neil Stevens on Tuesday 10/Jul/2001, @03:20

> as Microsoft goes down in flames!

That kind of obsession with Windows would harm KDE, if the development community engaged in it.

KDE is no more in competition with Windows than it is with GNOME. Some organizations that package KDE may be, but KDE itself isn't. KDE just ships code. No more, no less.

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Re: Konqueror Gets Activ(eX)ated
by not me on Tuesday 10/Jul/2001, @04:25

Sorry, I was kind of kidding about that. I certainly don't really believe Microsoft is going to go down in flames on KDE's part. They've got billions of $ to burn, and if KDE really starts to threaten them, they will just spend their money on making Windows better until it's better than KDE. They could do that for years without selling a single copy of Windows, with the cash hoard they've built up. Heck, they could probably do it on the interest on Bill Gates' personal fortune alone. So Microsoft isn't going down in flames anytime soon (unless the DOJ has a major change of opinion), and it's probably a good thing anyway.

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Re: Konqueror Gets Activ(eX)ated
by Timothy R. Butler on Wednesday 11/Jul/2001, @00:39

Hey notme,
Thanks for pointing out Bochs! I certainly appreciate it!

-Tim (the Bochs web admin)

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