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Article #865Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
From: Tim Haynes
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 00:00
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David Damerell <damerell@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > 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. Yup. Availability of something to do their jobs on all platforms is good. What I was worried about is "distorting"[1] the underlying OSs by so doing - either philosophically or in particular by direct-port in the "style"[2] of star office. [1] visions of gravity-wells and black rubber sheets at this point [2] as in, "Volvos are styled for the American market" ;) ~Tim -- | Geek Code: GCS dpu s-:+ a-- C++++ UBLUAVHSC++++ P+++ L++ E--- W+++(--) N++ | w--- O- M-- V-- PS PGP++ t--- X+(-) b D+ G e++(*) h++(*) r--- y- | The sun is melting over the hills, | http://piglet.is.dreaming.org/ | All our roads are waiting / To be revealed | piglet@glutinous.custard.org
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From: "Tim Haynes" <piglet@glutinous.custard.org>
Subject: Re: Guilty, 'til proven guilty
Date: 2000/04/04
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