🚀 go-pugleaf

Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
>David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes:
>>Tim Haynes <piglet@glutinous.custard.org> wrote:
>>>Is splitting them up into a lot of monopolies all specialists in several
>>>areas (particularly if they're all part of the "M$loth Group", or whatever)
>>>any good?
>>If their applications division is separate from their OS division, they
>>no longer have the same interest in having their applications only run on
>>Windows; they can maximise their profit by porting them everywhere.
>And will Orifice 2001 "for linux" be written to use GTK+? (Or QT for those

Perhaps you've misunderstood me; it's not that I think Orifice for Linux
would be a useful tool for the likes of us; just that, once the apps are
widely ported, there won't be the same pressure to use Windows; and once
other software vendors can write just as effectively for Windows, there
won't be the same pressure to use the Microsoft apps; if that happens,
they've lost the stranglehold on the market, and that's good.
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