On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, at 5:04pm, Jerry Feldman wrote: > Products like these provide people with access to products that are > otherwise not available (a good thing). > BUT!!!!! > For those of us who know about FX32, they also do not provide any > incentive for the software vendor to port to native Linux. That's pretty > much the reason why Corel, for instance, no longer provides a native > WordPerfect build.
Right. One of the causes of the failure of OS/2 is widely considered to be the fact that it ran Win16 programs so well, it gave vendors no incentive to port their applications to the native OS/2 API. -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
