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[Harold L Hunt II]

Ross Smith II wrote:

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> Also, given that
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/nail/nail/README?rev=HEAD&view=markup
> states:
> 
> "On the other hand, I strongly discourage from porting nail to Windows
> and environments that make Windows look Unix-like; I won't accept any
> patches or suggestions that go in this direction. There are two major
> reasons for this: First, any port makes maintaining harder; there are
> always more work-arounds in the source, and introducing new features
> involves the question whether they will work an all supported platforms.
> The more different a platform behaves from, let's say, the common Unix
> way, the more hacks have to be made, costing human time that could
> otherwise have been used to enhance the software for Unix platforms.
> Windows is just not worth this, and here we are at the second point:
> Porting software to Windows encourages people to use -- that is: to buy
> -- Windows. It supports a company that is known to threaten Open Source
> software like nail. In short, porting nail (or similar free software)
> to Windows has an ill effect on that software. Don't do it."

My general response to arguments like that is:  fuck 'em.  I'll port it 
just to be a thorn in the guys side.

Harold