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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Moshe Brace using Yahoo
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<p>I read with great interest the plea for help to remain in
Linux instead of returning to Windows. </p>
<p>One of the major concerns I have on this issue is the use of
programmes like Wine and other emulators. If using these programmes I
feel in some way that it is a form of cheating on oneself. Are we in
Linux or are we in Windows? When do we actually cross the line?</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">An operating system is
an environment meant for running applications. Ideally, it is the
applications, rather than the OS, that are the real ends, with the OS
merely being means to that end.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">If you need a specific
application, and yet still get a choice of which OS to run it over,
than everybody wins (well, maybe the manufacturer of the monopolistic
OS doesn't win, but who cares?). I think treating it as a "line" is the
wrong question to ask.<br>
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<p> Even with all the tweaking that I may have to do to get a
stubborn programme to work with Linux, I like using it and feel
comfortable using it. Regarding Office programmes, yes there are more
options in the Microsoft Office version, but as a person who has learnt
Technical Writing, I would say that most people do not use even half of
these options; they can easily get away with using Open Office.</p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; margin-top: 0pt;">Now you are no longer
talking about which OS to use. You are now clearly within the realm of
which word processor to use.</p>
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Shachar<br>
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Shachar Shemesh
Lingnu Open Source Consulting Ltd.
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.lingnu.com">http://www.lingnu.com</a>
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