On Sunday 06 November 2005 22:05, James W Dow wrote: > LyX is a wonderful word processor. It is best one for writing mathematics > directly from the keyboard. Please don't spend a huge time developing it > for Windows. Windows will gradually fade away. Putting nice programs like > LyX on that operating system just delays people switching to a version of > Linux, where they really should be. Feeding software to Windows just lets > it grow profits for people who are doing nothing positive for the computing > community.
You are wrong on two points. 1) The operating system should not be of any importance (in a perfect world), applications is what the people need! They need LyX, give them LyX! People (the computer illiterate?) are not going to switch OS until the OS's are so good that you never have to "interact" with the OS. Then why should you pay for it when there are free ones? 2) It's not a word processor. It's the best application ever created. That's a huge difference. ;-)
