John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > John Bokma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > > >> >> "David Schwartz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> > > >> >> > "Tim Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > >> >> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >> web based applications that work with any browser make OS > >> irrelevant -> not true, since for OpenOffice it doesn't matter > >> which Linux distribution one runs (or even if it's Linux), yet > >> people seem to make a point of which distribution they use. > > > > A linux distribution isn't an OS, it's a distribution, so I'm not sure > > what your point here is. > > Ok, let me spell it out for you: If all your applications are web > based, and the OS shouldn't matter, why do Linux distributions > matter? It doesn't matter which one you use to run, for example, > OpenOffice. Yet people pick a certain distribution. Why? Well, one > reason is that people like to belong to a group. So even if it > really doesn't matter which OS you are going to use to access a web > application, or even which browser, people will pick a certain > browser, and a certain OS, just because. Thanks for spelling it out for me. Now could you spell out what this has to do with Microsoft's intentions? On second thought, don't bother, I think you're talking about something else, and I'm not sure what that is. Joe -- Gort, klatu barada nikto -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
