Windows porting

[Alan DuBoff]

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On Sunday 13 January 2002 09:44 am, Robin Rowe wrote:

> I tried to have a substantial discussion of Windows porting issues, but
> that wasn't feasible with one person vocally opposed to the very idea of
> porting open source to Windows, who didn't want Windows users becoming
> accustomed to Linux applications running on Windows, didn't want to welcome
> Windows programmers to open source, and was against attempting to bring
> Windows programmers and users into Linux via the route of open source.
> Perhaps I was surrounded by Windows.die.die.die advocates as you suggest,
> but it didn't seem so to me. One or two people did seem to have an extreme
> opinion, but I found that interesting.

If you're referring to me, you obviously don't know how to listen very well.

I hope this will be the last of this nonsense on the BAD list, since as I 
pointed out to you at the meeting...how much of the Debian system have 
Windows developers helped with? I mean, how large of a percentage of those 
applications. I think there are about 4000 packages, maybe there is more 
because there are ~6400 FreeBSD ports a friend showed me recentely.

As I told you previously, I do not use (except in very rare situations) or 
advocate (NEVER!) the usage of microsoft products for myself or to any of my 
clients, and I am in no way going out of my way to include anything specific 
changes for the those pieces of software to work with any "free" code that I 
write. I support "free" software in that it has no restrictions placed on it, 
you can do with it whatever you want (commercial or not). I welcome any 
Windows users to take any of my source code that is avaialable in this way, 
and do with it as they like. My defininition of "free" doesn't include "help".

Lastly, my definition of Debian and/or BAD doesn't include ms or Win. If you 
know of a bunch of Windows developers that are secretly working on Debian, 
I'd like to meet them. Most people probably don't really give a f#@$ about 
what you think about that topic, at least who comprise BAD, but I could be 
wrong about that...anyway, even if they do care about it, let's not subject 
them to it.

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Alan DuBoff
Software Orchestration, Inc.
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