Re: Win32 port

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

At 13:14 2000-06-06 -0500, bob@thestuff.net wrote:
>There is one advantage to a windows port, but not the one you tryed to
>make. Getting a nonpropriatary API onto windows for windows application
>developers would be that benifit. Most application developers wont move to
>linux yet due to 2 reasons. needing to learn a new set of api's, and the
>dependency of windows. For a company (generally) to be able to make money,
>the target OS is windows. undebatable fact. If they could code for
>"Wingnome", they could take advantage of the superior/free/open API, and
>still meat their target OS needs. 

The problem with that argument is that Windows developers are developing
for an API that is disributed by defaut on millions of computers. A
Win-GNOME would not be distributed by default. It would have to be
distributed as a third party API. Until Win-GNOME is installed on a
significant fraction of Windows machines, there is no financial incentive
for developers to target it.


 Tony
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