On 6/25/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Mingw's purpose is to enable to compile Unix SW to run it under Win, such that people can avoid using Unix/Linux and harvest Unix SW under Win. At least I am not interested in supporting this.
People can compile Unix SW to run under Windows without your support. In fact, this is very important for the success of OSS and Linux. Apart from being very beneficial for its image, getting people using OSS such as Firefox on Windows creates a compatibility layer allowing people to change to Linux more easily. If IE still had 99% of the browser market, a huge number of websites wouldn't have become compatible with Linux software. People dependent on IE would not be able to easily change to Linux. If things like Apache or PHP could not be run on Windows, a large number of web servers would be using IIS and ASP and would be incapable of being switching to Linux. You think that mingw allows people to avoid using Linux. This is incorrect in most circumstances, simply because Linux is not avoided; it's just ignored. Providing compatibility with things like mingw hurts Microsoft far more than it hurts Linux, because Microsoft has used incompatibility as a barrier to competition in order to keep its monopoly. The people who do use Linux usually do so not because other operating systems are incompatible with something they use on it, but because they think it is better. That's very different from someone who uses Windows because they are tied to certain applications even if they know something better is out there. n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
