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Re: [LUG] Accessing Linux Drives from Windows

 

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 21:26 +0100, Neil Stone wrote:

> ahhh... the old "Linux won't run application x y or z" comment.. didn't
> take long... ;-)

It works both ways.

There are machines still running VMS, OS/2.PC-DOS, becuase they run a
program that runs on thoat platform alone.

(One of the promises of FLOSS, that seems highly likely to be delivered
in any reasonable circumstance, is that people won't get locked by
significant applications into old minority OS'.) 


So to find someone saying "I still use WIndows, becuase it is the only
OS that the application I depend upon and prefer, and which is secret so
not portable" is almost inevitable, given success.

Wait for the half-empty glass to become half full. 

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