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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: QT for Windows released under GPL
From:       Luke-Jr <luke-jr () utopios ! org>
Date:       2005-02-09 0:24:20
Message-ID: 200502090024.21540.luke-jr () utopios ! org
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Recently, I began moving my grandmother-in-law to KDE/GNU/Linux from Windows 
XP. One of the issues I encountered is that I would be forced to set her up 
using Thunderbird for email so I can guarantee cross-platform access to the 
same mailbox (on a FAT32 "CrossOS" partition). I prefer KMail over 
Thunderbird quite a bit, but I cannot be sure that KMail would use the exact 
same format as another mail program on Windows, so it's not an option at this 
time.
If KMail were to be ported to Windows, this suddenly becomes possible. Similar 
with other applications, get Windows-addicts to switch from ProprietaryAppX 
to KDEReplacementX one by one, and once they are using only KDE apps, then 
you can easilly make the move to a full KDE/GNU/Linux system. Why not keep 
Windows with the same KDE interface? Viruses, for one. As long as GNU/Linux 
is a technically superior platform, I don't see that it needs any "killer 
apps", but that it simply needs to have the ones that people would be using 
anyway. Get people to use cross-platform apps, and that problem goes away.
-- 
Luke-Jr
Developer, Utopios
http://utopios.org/
 
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