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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Brendan <mailinglist () endosquid ! com>
Date:       2005-02-08 23:49:45
Message-ID: 200502081849.45470.mailinglist () endosquid ! com
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On Monday 07 February 2005 20:16, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> simply believing that putting apps on win32 that also run on Free OSes will
> somehow in itself lead to migration to Free OSes is exactly the sort of
> naivety i'm trying to get people to re-examine.

Most people I know that I have spoken to about their change to 
Firefox/Thunderbird/Gimp/Openoffice on Windows, from 
IE/Outlook/Photoshop/Office on Windows have had their first question be (when 
speaking of Linux): "Do those run on Linux?" 

Trying to predict the future and endlessly saying what "It's all about" is 
fun, and honestly, it's great to go back and forth on this one, but if people 
are willing to put in the time to port/polish (car terms) good open-source 
apps onto Windows, I guess only time will tell if it helps migration away from  
Windows. Any of this long-winded bandying about is nice, but since neither 
opinion is so obviously right that 99% of people think one way, then I guess 
time will be the only true determining factor.

 
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