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4 Nov 2024 17:32:05 EST (-0500)
  Re: Compiling stuff  
From: Mueen Nawaz
Date: 15 Dec 2008 23:21:05
Message: <49472cb1@news.povray.org>
nemesis wrote:
>>>>> So I decided to stick with Windows, and guess what?  Things just
>>>> work.
>>>>
>>>>  Except a lot of those Linux apps.
> 
> Unfortunately, free software means the source is available even to Windows
> whinners to use because there will be always someone willing to port them to
> Windows.

	Why is that unfortunate?

	And as I mentioned to Ben, a few years ago this wasn't all that true. A
number of programs I used were ported to Windows only recently.


-- 
Psychoceramics: The study of crackpots.


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