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From: Pascal Obry <p.obry@wanadoo.fr>
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Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:

> In that regard, Windows should be no harder than OS/400.
> 
> Open Source software is not different from normal software.

Well in theory yes, but Open Source softwares are using GNU/C and commercial
software on Windows use Microsoft compiler... and both are not really
compatible :)

> Making useful programs portable between operating systems
> requires careful effort from the beginning.  If there
> is no effort at portability put into some individual piece
> of Open Source software, that is a problem that cannot be
> blamed on Microsoft.

I do not blame Microsoft I was just saying that it is harder to build Open
Source software using GCC on Windows... And that most (if not all) Open Source
softwares are using GNU/C has the compiler and peoples use mostly GNU/Linux
systems to develop them. So as I said Windows 2000/XP is a very good platform
these days but it is just a bit harder to have the benefit of all ongoing Open
Source efforts.

BTW, Apple did a great job with Mac OS X, you have the famous Mac GUI and the
powerful and flexible UNIX environment... but this is another story.

Pascal.

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