IE in FreeBSD?

Ted Mittelstaedt tedm at toybox.placo.com
Sat Sep 17 23:38:58 PDT 2005



>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of P.U.Kruppa
>Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 9:44 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt
>Cc: Garrett Cooper; FreeBSD Questions
>Subject: RE: IE in FreeBSD?
>
>
>On Wed, 14 Sep 2005, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>
>>
>> My opinion on WINE is that it merely harms people who are writing
>> software
>> for FreeBSD.  If I write a wordprocessor for Linux or FreeBSD
>and try to
>> sell it, why would a customer buy it when he can just use his
>Microsoft
>> Word under Wine?
>Don't forget Wine, Qemu, etc. are pieces of software themselves,
>written by great programmers and hackers for Linux and FreeBSD.
>They weren't discouraged from anything: They do contribute
>to the open source community.
>

I don't but there's so much other stuff that needs programming attention
that I think it's too bad that all that talent isn't working on that
instead.

Ted



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