Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:33:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:33:01 -0500 Received: from hermine.idb.hist.no ([158.38.50.15]:5135 "HELO hermine.idb.hist.no") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 04:33:01 -0500 Message-ID: <3DF8586A.13BAE79D@aitel.hist.no> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:35:38 +0100 From: Helge Hafting X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.5.51 i686) X-Accept-Language: no, en, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns=20Rullg=E5rd?= CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Is this going to be true ? References: <001801c2a0a9$02613f40$2e863841@joe> <3DF6901A.7040309@WirelessNetworksInc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 855 Lines: 22 M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > > Herman Oosthuysen writes: > > > MS history shows that they did and does support various flavours of > > *nix. So, it is not beneath them to release apps for Linux too one > > day and it would be a good thing if they do. > > Why would that be good? People would start using their programs and > blame Linux when they crash. If office is the _only_ programs they use perhaps. Otherwise, you get "Damn, office fell over again but at least I didn't have to reboot like before. Why can't it just stay up like those other apps of mine?" Helge Hafting - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/