Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:38:51 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "P.U.Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de> Cc: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNEEGCFCAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20050916061534.J80240@www.pukruppa.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa >Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:44 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Garrett Cooper; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? > > >On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> >> My opinion on WINE is that it merely harms people who are writing >> software >> for FreeBSD. If I write a wordprocessor for Linux or FreeBSD >and try to >> sell it, why would a customer buy it when he can just use his >Microsoft >> Word under Wine? >Don't forget Wine, Qemu, etc. are pieces of software themselves, >written by great programmers and hackers for Linux and FreeBSD. >They weren't discouraged from anything: They do contribute >to the open source community. > I don't but there's so much other stuff that needs programming attention that I think it's too bad that all that talent isn't working on that instead. Ted
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