What's up with Lindows? · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Hemos on Friday December 14, 2001 @11:39PM from the works-with-magic-fairy-dust dept.

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?"

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Re:Microsoft Monopoly by Enigma2175 · 2001-12-15 03:22 · Score: 3, Offtopic

as complete compatibility is unpossible
Me fail English? That's unpossible!
-Ralph Wiggum

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Re:Did you listen to a word that I said? by tomstdenis · 2001-12-15 04:57 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Fill in the blank.

MS is a monopoly and the average user should use _______ by default as setup by the OEM.

Tom

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