Re: gnome win32

[raster redhat com]

On 15 Sep, Ted Lemon shouted:
->  
->  > There are very interesting things to do to Linux,  please don't lost your
->  > time to port gnome to win32.
->  > Please lost your time develop to Linux gnome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
->  
->  I'm probably going to do at least a Gtk Win32 port if somebody else
->  doesn't get to it first, because believe it or not, it can be handy to
->  build all your software out of one code base without ifdefs, and
->  having a common GUI API is the way to make that happen.   An added
->  advantage will be that as Win32 users start to prefer Gtk-based
->  applications over their Win32 applications (and one hopes that this
->  will happen) they'll start to have less and less reason to actually
->  *use* a Win32-based OS, and will eventually switch to Linux or NetBSD.

doesn't work that way - track history shows it - OS/2 for example..
they wont have a reasont o change cause they have perfectly good enough
things on their in32 box - why would they bother changign os's unless
there was a damn good reason (ie some killer app).

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