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Re: philosophy question
- To: raucd at sk dot sympatico dot ca, gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: philosophy question
- From: "Georg Klein" <geklein@[192.168.100.2]>
- Date: Thu, 6 Nov 1997 21:08:39 +0000
- Reply-to: geklein at metronet dot de
- Warning: Sender was geklein@metronet.de
> Date: Wed, 05 Nov 1997 17:06:42 -0600
> From: Darren Rauckman <raucd@sk.sympatico.ca>
> Reply-to: raucd@sk.sympatico.ca
> To: gnu-win32@cygnus.com
> Subject: Re: philosophy question
> > i don't see a conflict. My goal is simple: to take as much control
> > as possible of NT away from microsoft and into the free software
> > community, so that on those rare cases when I have to use NT, I
> > don't use their miserable tools, their expensive software, or
> > depend on their unreliable SDKs. "Embrace and extend". gnu-win32
> > is a step toward that end. In the limit, we boot an NT kernel and
> > run only gnu tools on top. Now that would be fun.
>
> That is the best thing I have heard in a long time. DOWN WITH
> MICROSOFT!!
>
Hi,
to me, there remains one simple question: why booting an NT-Kernel
and work with gnu-tools, when you van have that much better: use, for
example, linux, use FreeBSD and you have alle the gnu-tools you want
without using a Microsoft OS!
Georg
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