--- Shaun Oliver <shaun_oliver at optusnet.com.au> wrote: > Woe! slow down there ann. > What he's wondering is, will jfw work on something like vmware. > imho, I don't think so. Yup, thanks for the clarification. > For starters, there's the issue of direct x. I don't think that direct x > is even handled at all in a windows emulator. I'll stand to be corrected > as always. > there's also the issue of msaa and whether or not it will work on > something like vmware. > I can see his point but I also see the other side of the coin having > started from scratch with linux. > but I take your point too. > why pay through the nose for a crappy piece of software that gets major > changes about once every whenever they can think of something they want to > add. I saw it primarily as a means of transition. A lot of people have significant Windows-only apps or documents, etc. in a Windows-only format and getting to a Linux environment with Linux formats is not going to happen overnight. It's important that we acknowledge that the transition takes time so that: 1) We don't make people get frustrated when the transition period takes more than a day. 2) People don't format their Windows partition, lose access to legacy applications / data and get really frustrated and mad (at Linux and the people who gave them advice, both of which I have seen happen). ... So all in all, I'm not suggesting we try to lure people over to Linux and let them continue to "pay through the nose for a crappy piece of software that gets major changes about once every whenever" as you put it Shaun. I've always stood against that (see http://ocularis.sourceforge.net/potential.php ). I'm trying to look at a means of helping that transition and to answer the (good) question of a Assitive Technology Practitioner at RESNA. I hope that clarifies my question. Best, --JP ===== - Cell Phone - 206-849-9032 Time Zone - Pacific (-08:00 UTC) Home Page - http://ocularis.sourceforge.net __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Sign up for SBC Yahoo! Dial - First Month Free http://sbc.yahoo.com
