[Derek Fountain
You're cutting your nose off to spite your face. If a program has been compiled with winelib, then it *is* a native Linux application.
Things may change, but in the current Linux tradition, many applications are distributed in source form.
Perhaps you should learn your facts before you criticise?
Of course. So, I would like to learn if sources are freely available.
In general, there's not much wrong with many Windows applications.
Are source freely available? May I/we modify them according to our needs? Could the bugs and limitations be solved by the community, or else, how?
Some vendor's produce exceptionally high standards of code.
May we admire that code? Or at least, make an opinion by ourselves?
The fact it runs on a flakey OS doesn't mean it's a bad application,
The wrong thing about flakey OS is that the community does not have the means for making them better. Linux could have been managed to be just as flakey. One may very well choose to stick with free software, and have a quite happy life! :-) You know, being good and bad is a question of personal values, and the good of one may well be the bad of another. -- François Pinard http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/