On 11/6/05, James W Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.
James, I have an opposite view. I migrated to Linux at the moment I realized that all software I was using (with MS Windows) was natively developed for Linux. Thus, to have LyX and other (natively Linux) programs available for MS Windows may help with conquering new users for Linux. Paul
