Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on April 13, 2003 02:36 AM
Though I'm not the original poster, I would like to respond to your comments.
If you're going to use Crossover to run IE and MS Office, then you might as well stick with Windows, because you're helping Microsoft just the same.
Not quite. Crossover can help as a stepping-stone towards freedome from MS. Instead of using 100% MS, you can use MS products only when you must, and OSS everywhere else. For instance, you can do your regular web-surfing with Mozilla and then use IE when you visit the website of the client that requreis it.
Though this is a suboptimal solution, it is an improvement, and thus, it constitutes a seed for change.
You are helping Microsoft to poison the Internet. When you use IE instead of a standards-supporting alternative, such as Mozilla,
By using Mozilla part-time and IE part-time, you have increased the overall usage of Mozilla and decreased that of IE as compared to where you were before. This is a step forward.
Do you value your freedom? Do you want Linux to succeed? Do you want to be able to access the Internet without paying a toll to Microsoft, now and in the future?
Yes... yes!... YEEEES!!! (sorry, got caught up in the euphoria)<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
I still think that Crossover can be used as a stepping stone.
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Re:Don't use Crossover
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on April 13, 2003 02:36 AMIf you're going to use Crossover to run IE and MS Office, then you might as well stick with Windows, because you're helping Microsoft just the same.
Not quite. Crossover can help as a stepping-stone towards freedome from MS. Instead of using 100% MS, you can use MS products only when you must, and OSS everywhere else. For instance, you can do your regular web-surfing with Mozilla and then use IE when you visit the website of the client that requreis it.
Though this is a suboptimal solution, it is an improvement, and thus, it constitutes a seed for change.
You are helping Microsoft to poison the Internet. When you use IE instead of a standards-supporting alternative, such as Mozilla,
By using Mozilla part-time and IE part-time, you have increased the overall usage of Mozilla and decreased that of IE as compared to where you were before. This is a step forward.
Do you value your freedom? Do you want Linux to succeed? Do you want to be able to access the Internet without paying a toll to Microsoft, now and in the future?
Yes... yes!... YEEEES!!!
(sorry, got caught up in the euphoria)<nobr> <wbr></nobr>:)
I still think that Crossover can be used as a stepping stone.
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