I think the motivation is to ween people off of M$ products altogether, to get them used to working an a unix environment and to the idea of using open alternatives rather than thinking that commercial software is somehow "better". The only reason I want this functionality is to make my software available to windoze users--despite their unfortunate ignorance, they are people too. That's what I always say.
On Thursday 15 September 2005 00:59, Tim Roberts wrote: > James Stroud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >My department has switched from vmware to wine/cxoffice. > > Fascinating. If you don't mind, and if others don't mind an off-topic > diversion, can you spend a few minutes explaining what led to this > decision? Wine is pretty good, but it will never be as thorough and > compatible as a VMware session. > -- > - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- James Stroud UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics Box 951570 Los Angeles, CA 90095 http://www.jamesstroud.com/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
