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"Mark Knecht" <markknecht@×××××.com> posted |
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5bdc1c8b0803081040k3e83bd5oe583f4b299b68674@××××××××××.com, excerpted |
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below, on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:40:49 -0800: |
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> One comment about Wine. There is both Open Source software as well as |
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> free binary distribution software for Windows, especially in the audio |
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> area. Small signal processing units like reverb and synthesizers, etc. |
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> Not everythign compiled for Windows is created by the Dark Lords of the |
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> North West. Anyway, just because we run Wine doesn't mean we have to go |
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> against your free software mantra. That's a good portion of how I've |
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> used Wine in the past. Other than that I try, once in awhile, to run a |
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> game which I've already purchased. Not the best, I know, but better than |
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> continuing to purchase, or at least I think so. To each his/her own. |
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Agreed. |
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FWIW I've mentioned in the past that I have an old non-freedomware game I |
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still run, Master of Orion, original DOS edition, using DOSBOX. I'm not |
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proud of it but do admit that I'm pretty much its slave, as I'm basically |
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addicted, tho I can take some comfort in the fact that it's now a decade |
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and a half (copywrite 1993 and that was the update I got) old. |
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As for freedomware designed to run on MS Windows, yes, it does exist. |
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However, the platform itself isn't free (of course), and running apps |
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thru WINE is sort of like trying to drive from the back seat of a bus |
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using planks to control the steering and acceleration. It may be |
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possible, but if one can sit in the driver's seat (run a native Linux |
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application doing the same thing, better and faster), it's useful to do |
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so. =8^) I do recognize that choice isn't available for everyone, but |
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since I have it for everything I need to run (with that single game |
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exception), I take advantage of it. If you note, I described what I |
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choose to do; I didn't claim what you did was wrong for you, but am |
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simply glad that I can get away without it, even if it involves a bit of |
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pain at times (running gnash or swfdec for flash, for instance, and doing |
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without where it fails to work). It /does/ significantly decomplicate |
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the system side of things, since I can and do run nomultilib now. =8^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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