Windows porting

[Karsten M. Self]

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on Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:54:23PM -0800, Ben Pfaff (blp@cs.stanford.edu) w=
rote:
> "Robin Rowe" <rower@MovieEditor.com> writes:
>=20
> > I have no problem if people aren't interested in the topic. That's
> > why when the discussion shifted to why Windows ports are undesirable
> > I didn't just drop it. I was curious to hear why some people felt
> > strongly that way, especially since it seems like all popular Linux
> > open source projects have Windows ports.

> Also, my own experience with Windows ports is that the users are
> assholes.  I once went to some trouble to port GNU PSPP (my program)
> so that it would run under Windows.  All I got back was self-righteous
> flames that it "sucked" because it didn't have a graphical interface.
> Never again.

=2E..scads or what?  This is why Fnord invented killfiles.

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