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Re: Emacs vista build failures
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs vista build failures |
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Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:25:42 +0200 |
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"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard M Stallman wrote:
>> IF making free programs working on windows helps promote
>> GNU/Linux (or Herd) is not that good?
>>
>> Yes, but we can't assume in general that that is the case. For a few
>> programs, such as OpenOffice and Firefox, the fact that they run on
>> Windows seems to be a signficant aid to migration to GNU/Linux. But I
>> don't see that this is true for other free programs.
>
> The programs you mention are end user programs. That they are (or seem
> to be) an aid is perhaps rather easy to detect since the effect is
> rather immediate.
>
> Developers programs might not have an immediate effect, but I believe
> the long time aid might be much larger.
Why? It makes it easier to stay on proprietary platforms.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, (continued)
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, David Kastrup, 2008/07/22
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Bastien, 2008/07/26
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Johannes Weiner, 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/23
- Re: Emacs vista build failures,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Nick Roberts, 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Óscar Fuentes, 2008/07/24
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Richard M Stallman, 2008/07/25
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/07/26
- Re: Emacs vista build failures, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/26