On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 14:48:19 +0000, Mike Hearn <mike@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 08:29:48 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > > If solutions for those scenarios came to Linux (and no, I don't like > > wine) natively - I wouldn't need Windows. Me neither. > Why don't you want to use Wine for these things? I got a track from iTMS > yesterday on Linux, without a copy of Windows, using Wine. It solves > your problem using free software as much as possible, in a convenient > manner, but you'd rather reboot to Windows and use 100% proprietary stuff > instead? That makes no sense. Have you ever asked why RH removed Wine from the distro ? Well, it is better to let some Red Hatter to respond that, but I can tell that IBM will never propose some migration solution based on Wine because it is an open implementation of a proprietary thing. In other words, it is proprietary, which means "legal issues". Windows APIs are a propriety of Microsoft. Other minor Wine issues are: - Businesses look at it as an ad-hoc solution - You can't be sure if all your apps will run there Regards, Avi
