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To: JC Jaros who wrote (7904)	12/7/1999 4:05:00 AM
From: louie	Respond to of 9798

Cowpland sometimes make comments that rub people the wrong way and jumps on the technology bandwagan too often and falls off, but Linux development was a true winner.He is a VERY intelligent person that has a zest for the finder things in life and a true showman.

To: JC Jaros who wrote (7904)	12/7/1999 2:50:00 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 9798

JC, what many fail to understand is that msft mostly as an artifact of their software development model and to varying degrees by design created all interface so as to lock out others. This locking out and secret handshake design causes bugs. The secrets cause more bugs even when one attempts to fully describe the interface. So Wine and all attempts to bring emulation into linux are just in reality an effort to introduce bugs. A computer of hardware and many layers of software is only as reliable as the weakest link. Wine never went anywhere in the open source community because the best and the brightest used functionally equivalent to superior tools that like the underlying OS never crashed. The early adopters of Linux were cutting edge folks. None were afraid as they quickly saw and marveled at the incredible stability and functionality of Linux. Now I'm talking about 1993 94. Along this thought the best and brightest are not going to beta test sour wine and those who do test it are the Window clingers and their expectation of reliability has been trained in as very low. So wine will simply make Linux as sucky as borgware and I say why not just stick with the borg virus of the month. So for many social and economic reasons, companies that follow an emulation port strategy vs a direct port will lose out in the long run. For my part, before Linux I tried several x86 unixes including solaris. I used solaris with wabi and Linux with wabi and I've tried several other mixed OS systems. But I always found that native Linux apps gave faster and more stable performance. I started to use applixware as soon as Redhat offered it. The Applixware 4.37 release cd even has ye old redhat logo on it. I also tried word perfect 5? 6? native Linux and liked applix words better. So when the guy at the top sayes corl is bringing more technology to Linux than.... He has in effect said to me that "Well I smoked but I never inhaled" So Mr. Cowpland has zero credibility with me. The current performance on my portfolio for this year is based on my very conservative technology comprehension analysis. Corl now fails my tests. I hope everyone makes money on it. But it's to risky for me. On the other hand at current prices corl is only 1/12th the risk of rhat. Tom Watson tosiwmee