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What's up with Lindows?
A reader writes "In this editorial at DesktopLinux.com, commentator Malcolm Dean questions whether Lindows is any sort of linux at all, and suggests that the world might actually be better off without yet another proprietary/commercial Windows wannabe (that runs Windows apps, no less). Dean asks how it is possible that, as Lindows.com founder Michael Robertson manages to claims in his latest newsletter, Lindows' ten million lines of code include a Windows Compatibility Module that somehow works better than anything else available today. "Has Mr. Robertson's team accomplished in a few months what took WINE years?" Where is the substance to back the hype? Besides, what if Lindows does succeed: do we really want to perpetuate the use of Windows software on a linux platform?"
The reason not to run windows app is that it makes RMS unhappy :)
One of the motivation behind GNU/Linux was free software. Running Windows apps goes against that ideal.
They probably stole the WINE code anyway. If it's closed source, prove otherwise.
I'll gladly use Windows software. Hell, I just paid $3 for a game that the fucking thieves at Loki are porting and will sell for full price if they don't go bankrupt before they finish it, which if there is a God, they will.
Of linux zealot stupidity.
"What if people want to use windows software on linux."
Hey jack-ass I'll let you in on a tip. Not all windows software is from MS. There are alot of good free programs for windows that would be useful if they worked in a linux box.
Besides if MS is so bad and windows sucks so much, why are linux zealots spending time on bridging the gap in the first place? Oh thats right because for personal use windows is a *zillion* [I counted...] times better, easier, faster and more productive.
Go and hide under a rock you dumb "I wannabe a cool linux zealot" loser!
Someday, I'll have a real sig.
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