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Not disagreeing about wasting money on unnecessary licencing fees, but how much potential is there for a migration path something along the lines of ported apps running under windows coming before a change of OS. Much less of a leap for most end users, and I suspect few end users particularly care about their OS so having achieved a critical mass of ported apps are going to start wondering why they really are wasting money on windows. I don't know how feasible this is, for example I don't think the GIMP windows port is quite perfect yet, and I assume that's not for lack of time and effort (and serious effort when loads of the windows API calls are (a) undocumented and (b) change like communication gurus at the DTLR), but presumably as we all start writing in Java.....??????? Paul
===== Original Message From Simon Waters <Simon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ===== Steve Marvell wrote:On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:05:16PM +0000, kevin bailey wrote:i am also checking out cygwin so existing windows PC's can be used as thin clients,That seems rather a waste of the Windows licensing fee.I'd have thought that VNC was a more natural cross platform approach to terminal servers. Most of the time buying PC's is a waste of the Windows licensing fee for me. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.
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