I think we are likely to be in a "need for Windows s/w" situation for a long time to come. As W2k (or W2003k, or whenever) becomes more prevalent in the work world, the AutoCad's and the Pro-E's and so on are going to need to be supported on Linux, if we're ever going to make Linux a desk-top OS. I would run this program from Linux if I could, because I like it better than the mail programs on Linux. (Actually, I haven't tried lately-- they say Wine is improved.) I don't think there is inherently anything wrong with s/w that runs on Windows--if we had the source it could probably just be recompiled to run on Linux, BUT WE DON'T! (Full-up AutoCad could be a problem, since it also has internally a LISP program.) But back to the basics: just because a company has written s/w that runs on Windows does not make the s/w or the company bad or inferior. It's Windows ITSELF that gets our goat, to be polite about it. --doug /second level message stripped out/
Yes ... I was saying to a friend that the difficulty I was experiencing as an advanced Windows user (is that regarded as offensive?) was breaking my habits and forcing ME (myself) over to Linux. HE said I could always use Wine and and I said I felt that rather defeated the object of moving to *nix which was to get away from MS and into *nix & opensource etc. Sure once I've figured out the serieous stuff I may try Wine or something like it but I want to see what Linux can do first!
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