GnuCash Features Survey

[Linas Vepstas]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 12:40:21AM -0400, Aaron Peromsik was heard to remark:
> 
> [Of course a userland app like GNUcash could have a better chance of
> "infiltration" than Linux if it ran on Windows. If "ordinary" people
> slowly, over time, start switching to free apps, it would be less
> traumatic if they eventually decide to make the OS switch to
> Linux... and find many of the apps they had used on Windows work
> better that way.]

It would be funny if we got large chunks of gnome (or kde) working on
windows XP, got lots of users that way, and then microsoft changed
the license to 'no gpl on xp'. 

--linas

btw history note: there was a strategy similar to this in netscape, and
at lotus: make the MS desktop irrelevent by getting the user to spend
all thier time inside of netscape/lotus.  The strategy failed ...
but was for real, I spent a day in meetings with lotus & ibm execs 
debating this point, back circa 1994.


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