If they can manoeuver themselves to be a supplier of desktop applications under a "commodity O/S market" or whatever, then...well, what then? Is that a bad thing, a good thing? Would they matter? Show of hands -- who here is willing to drop vi or emacs for Word2K? Nobody? I didn't think so. Though most people might be happy with Office, I'm not sure the Linux crowd would be all that interested. Hmm.
I wouldn't be able to get my dad to use Linux unless Microsoft Office has been ported. So I am hoping that they do port it and I am thinking that for them to do it will require the anti-trust case to break up Microsoft into seperate smaller Microsoft's that don't say decide not to port Office because it will effect NT's market share.
At the moment though, they reallly have to get thinking, what would happen if Linux takes off in the Desktop market with Word Perfect and Star Office? and there is no Mirosoft Office for Linux and that leaves NT for dead. While that is my dream, it is really something for Microsoft to think about, because if that did happen their only hope would be Micorosft Office to keep them alive and whopps they didn't port that to Linux because they wanted to use it to protect NT which is dead anyway.
I think GTK+ 1.2 also implements the Motif drag-and-drop protocol (which may explain why dropping from the Motif-based Netscape to the GTK+-based GMC worked); what are Troll Tech's and/or the KDE team's plans to implement the Motif DnD protocol?
I thought that I read somewhere that Netscape was going to use GTK in future versions anyway. Does anyone know if that is right?
WINE doesn't require windows, but I think it needs a fat filesystem =(
Just need to encourage developers to recompile their apps in Linux. But what I would like to know is... when a windows app is compiled with WINE, is it just as good as if it was full ported to Linux?
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I wouldn't be able to get my dad to use Linux unless Microsoft Office has been ported. So I am hoping that they do port it and I am thinking that for them to do it will require the anti-trust case to break up Microsoft into seperate smaller Microsoft's that don't say decide not to port Office because it will effect NT's market share.
At the moment though, they reallly have to get thinking, what would happen if Linux takes off in the Desktop market with Word Perfect and Star Office? and there is no Mirosoft Office for Linux and that leaves NT for dead. While that is my dream, it is really something for Microsoft to think about, because if that did happen their only hope would be Micorosft Office to keep them alive and whopps they didn't port that to Linux because they wanted to use it to protect NT which is dead anyway.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Even if you're running gnome/e, you can still run konqueror right?
Yeah but you'd have to have QT and KDE libs installed.
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
I thought that I read somewhere that Netscape was going to use GTK in future versions anyway. Does anyone know if that is right?
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837
Just need to encourage developers to recompile their apps in Linux. But what I would like to know is... when a windows app is compiled with WINE, is it just as good as if it was full ported to Linux?
AussiePenguin
Melbourne, Australia
ICQ 19255837