Re: Linus Speaks About KDE-Bashing

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 13 Jul 1998 23:13:28 +0100 (BST)


> The assumption that "everyone has" Microsoft Windows is incorrect-
> the last MS OS I bought and used at home was DOS 3.3. It is also

Ok let me rephrase that better "Everyone who would need that library to use
the software..." - ie if you are on X11 you dont really need windows runtime
dlls

> Another question this raises- since there is not currently a free/open-
> source Java runtime environment, is it currently "evil" to write
> free/open-source Java programs? What about Visual Basic?

I've not really thought about it in detail - assuming there wasnt a free
source java runtime.

Alan

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