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Subject: Re: What will be the position of Windows in 3, 4 years in the future?

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:06:00 11/30/99

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On November 29, 1999 at 18:55:52, leonid wrote:

>Hi!
>
>What will the position of Windows in three or four years from now? Will the
>recent High Court ruling against Microsoft influence this system? And how much
>you expect that Linux will become prominent for the chess games?
>
>Leonid.

Leonid, i'm not a lawyer so i don't dare to say a word
about court trials of M$ and the influence of it.

But i have both linux and windows and i have written a program
that works in both environments. I see that both environments get better
I also see that linux gets better faster than windows, but they NEED to do that
as it's not very user friendly to say it very nice
For example i'm writing this in linux: in Lynx. How well is my formatting? can
you read this line for example?
I'm seeing a stupid text console which does me remind of DOS. Linux = DOS + some
extra
Windows = Easy to use and all software works for it.
For now the situation is easily to answer: linux is not interesting for
chessgames except if you are parallel like me, offers like bob to run on his
quad xeon (linux of course) are hard to get.



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