Re: [Sheflug] Re: TopPage info for Sheffield Linux User Group

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

Hmmm... you seem to have summed up whats in my head better than I have in
3 (lengthy) posts :-)


Craig Andrews
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On Sat, 20 May 2000, Will Newton wrote:

> On Sat, 20 May 2000, Al Hudson wrote:
> 
> > > What I'm saying is this.. Windows software, generally speaking, is
> > > licenced commercial software. It costs to own and use. Use the same
> > > software under Linux, in the same form (same binaries, etc) and the same
> > > restrictions apply. Bang, open source down the drain. 
> > 
> > Ahhh, different argument completely ;) One I agree with wholeheartedly,
> > although the dangers always exist no matter how software gets ported to
> > Linux.
> 
> What bugs me is that it IS possible to write portable, modular code that
> requires only a minimal amount of porting. #ifdefs are not necessarily the
> devil. Things like NSPR just infuriate me. Several megabytes of
> wrappers. Ugly as sin. Wine just takes the cruft to a new level.
> Abstract your GUI code, abstract your sound code, write the rest in ANSI
> C. Wine is simply for "afterthought" ports by bad programmers.
> 
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