Re: OFFTOPIC: New list please?

Geert Uytterhoeven (Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 10:51:32 +0100 (CET)

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On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Jauder Ho wrote:
> For example I would dearly like to see 1) Quicken, 2) Photoshop and 3)
> Framemaker ported to Linux. This would give me abosolutely no reason to go back
> to Windows except for games. If there is coherent, polite lobbying, I think
> companies would be more inclined to port their stuff esp. if they see a large
> potential user base out there.

For Framemaker, I heard that the OS vendor is supposed to pay for the porting
effort. So we need to find a vendor with money (Red Hat?).

Greetings,

Geert

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Geert Uytterhoeven                     Geert.Uytterhoeven@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
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Department of Computer Science -- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven -- Belgium

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