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Subject: Re: Happy to know Ruffian will become commercial, because....

Author: Martin Andersen

Date: 13:52:29 10/22/03

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On October 22, 2003 at 16:47:22, Uri Blass wrote:


>
>Totally irrelevant.
>
>By the same logic you can say that you do not see a reason to buy faster cars
>when nobody here has chances to run even only faster than the old cars.
>
>>
>>It's a bit like paying $200 bucks for Windows when Linux can be had for $5.
>
>Linux does not give the same things.
>
>People complain that they cannot run most of the chess software on Linux and
>chess software is not the only problem.
>
>Maybe if some good programmer can write a program that translate every source
>code for programs that run under windows to equivalent source code that run
>under linux things may be different.
>
>Otherwise programmers are going to continue to release applications that are
>only for windows.
>
>Uri

Uri, you are not even wrong.
Linux can do anything Windows can, and more.
The problem is companies makes software mostly for Windows, they
do so because most PC's have Windows on them, not because Linux
is technical inferior.

Martin.



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