Re: Education strategy

[Alistair Davidson]

Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 12 May 2002 13:16:09 +0100
> Alistair Davidson <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > Wine is important because it lets people continue using their old
> > (albeit non-free) software after switching to a free OS. It increases
> > the chances of them using free software in situations where there's one
> > or two apps they use that don't have a diect equivalent under *nix.
> 
> I understand the issue you are pointing at. What are these software teacher 
> may still want/need to
> use under a GNU system?
> We can promote a port or the writting of free equivalent for GNU but we need 
> an accurate list.

Well, in theory at least you can port windows->nix by recompiling
against WINE.

> Do you have some idea ?

Unfortunately not, I'm not a teacher.

-- 
Alistair Davidson

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