Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Jan 1997 15:44:39 -0800 (PST) | Subject | Re: If Linux is to succeed | From | Jeremey Barrett <> |
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> Linux needs applications to succeed in business. No question > about it. Not the pathetic Applix or buggy WordPerfect. Why is > it that the Windows API has not been ported to Unix? Why not the > Microsoft Foundation classes? Why not ActiveX/OLE/DCOM.
Because they suck? The windoze API is basically wrong-headed IMO. If someone ports it, great, yippee (actually someone has, check out www.willows.com). It shouldn't be a goal of Linux to emulate windoze. Good, native applications are a much better solution.
It's "nice" to support windoze apps, but not necessary to the survival of Linux. I don't think I'd want to use the windoze-user's Linux.
> > The Linux community should also shed the notion that everything > should be free. Prices should not be what they are for Sun or HP > products (multi thousand dollars for a GUI painter) but should > be similar to PC market prices. I know I am willing to spend some > cash.
As am I. There a numerous commercial Linux applications.
> > Microsoft operating systems are second rate. Everyone knows that. > Microsoft applications and applications architectures are the very best. > Everyone knows that too, and that is why they hold 90% of the market.
I disagree totally. The "architecture" is windoze' major problem. Some of the problem is implementation, but I think there is a basic wrong-headedness about it. Windoze certainly caters to bloated applications and development style. Ever write a program in straight C, then write the same thing using MFC, which is now by far the "suggested" model? The difference is obvious.
But I'm cynical :-)
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