From owner-freebsd-chat Wed May 20 14:49:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA05833 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:49:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vixa.voyager.net (vixa.voyager.net [198.109.136.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA05804 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 14:49:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kib@poboxes.com) Received: from kib ([209.153.178.194]) by vixa.voyager.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA05133; Wed, 20 May 1998 17:48:58 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <024401bd8437$15104f20$023aa8c0@kib.kib.net> Reply-To: "Jason" From: "Jason" To: "Frank Pawlak" , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , "Amancio Hasty" Cc: "Gary Kline" , "Atipa" , Subject: Re: Why we should support Microsoft... Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 17:34:28 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >what platform it runs on. That's market control, the buyer has virtually no >say in what gets implemented. It is either the M$ solution or nothing. You >either develop to the M$ standard or you don't develop at all. All of this Who says that....if all the app venders and users get sick and tired of windows and microsoft then they should abegin developing their apps for other platforms and begin promoting it to the public. Its not a hard thing to do to make an app run on other OSs. Jason To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message