The Dubious Benefits of Porting FOSS to Windows

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 11, 2007 7:27 PM EDT
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A couple of weeks ago, the O'Reilly editors asked Is Microsoft Relevant in a Post-Rails World? Contrary to some reports, there are still desktop applications in the world besides a web browser--and there are plenty of desktop applications under serious development. Many of them are F/OSS. Of those, plenty have ties to existing projects to produce fully-free desktop software. They run on top of free Unixes, take advantage of free APIs and libraries, and interoperate well with other free software.

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