Re: For those in need of some amusement.....

["Robert G. Brown" <bob@xxxxxxx>]

>>>>>Flame me if you must, but for me,
>>>>You dirty rotten @$#% %@#$()# ~#$%*% @#$%*+= !#$%@#% !!!!!!
>>>>How's that?   ;{)~
>>>WHAT!  No comparisons to Hitler, Stalin, or the Anti-Christ (who Bill
>>>apparently knows on a first name basis)?
>>All said above, but bleeped out by the mailing list server.   :{)
>I forget to use my secret KLUG officer decoder ring to decode "!#$%@#%",~
>now I see what your REALLY meant.
Yes, I've applied mine, and I'm shocked, SHOCKED that such language!

>>>>>I've always said that Linux isn't for everybody.
>>>>>i.e.  I'm happy letting my wife run Win95 at home.
>>>>Cool,  and my wife (not at all tech savy) uses an X terminal and
>>>X-Accountant...
>>(and don't give me any of that dosemu/wine crap :)
>Dosemu and wine are just that,  crap, IMHO.  They always almost work.~
WINE is a product that isn't ready for general consumption yet; it's 
very ambitious, and a lot of people WANT it to be ready, but that doesn't 
make it so. IMO If anyone is peddling WINE as a viable migration path from
Windows to Linux they're doing a real disservice to the future of Linux.

>That Corell is going to use WINE in it's products is down right
>terrifying,  unless they've really tested it.
My impression was that Corel was going to put "significant resources" 
into WINE prior to relying on it. To do otherwise IS terrifying. 

As for Lotus and the rest, I think we're going to see vendors listening
to their customer bases and acting (maybe swaying like palms in the wind)
accordingly. People now understand that porting products to Linux is a
marketing proposition, not a technical one, and that Linux is in the 
marketplace for the long haul. No one was willing to say that 18 months
ago, and that's progress.
                                                        ---> RGB <---