From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 18 06:38:57 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E192D16A41F for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (mail.web-strider.com [65.75.192.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C1D443D45 for ; Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:38:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) Received: from tedwin2k (nat-rtr.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com [65.75.197.130]) by mail.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with SMTP id j8I6f8b83364; Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:41:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tedm@toybox.placo.com) From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" To: "P.U.Kruppa" Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 23:38:51 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1250" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1506 In-Reply-To: <20050916061534.J80240@www.pukruppa.net> Importance: Normal Cc: Garrett Cooper , FreeBSD Questions Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 06:38:58 -0000 >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa >Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:44 PM >To: Ted Mittelstaedt >Cc: Garrett Cooper; FreeBSD Questions >Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD? > > >On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> >> My opinion on WINE is that it merely harms people who are writing >> software >> for FreeBSD. If I write a wordprocessor for Linux or FreeBSD >and try to >> sell it, why would a customer buy it when he can just use his >Microsoft >> Word under Wine? >Don't forget Wine, Qemu, etc. are pieces of software themselves, >written by great programmers and hackers for Linux and FreeBSD. >They weren't discouraged from anything: They do contribute >to the open source community. > I don't but there's so much other stuff that needs programming attention that I think it's too bad that all that talent isn't working on that instead. Ted