Commercial code is better: Cedega VS Wine 3366

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Why the hell is this being cross-posted to gnu.misc.discuss, whom I'm quite certain don't give a rat's rear? Fixed.

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006 03:29:56 +0000, billwg

If that were the case, you might have a point. Frankly, I'd be surprised if you could make a case that *anything* you do with your computer is worth $10,000 to anyone, let alone make a case it's actually does any notable (i.e. revenue-generating) process any better.

Certainly there are cases where that will in fact be true. I simply have doubts that your particular tasks fall into that category - and even more doubts that this has anything to do with the OS, rather than some boneheaded git having set things up to only work with specific applications, rather than being a more "generic" process, despite, quite probably, being quite manageable in a generic fashion.

Simple example. Task and project management, scheduling and the like. Supposedly Outlook offers some functionality in this regard - for example, it can compare "resources" - people, meeting rooms, etc - to see if your new meeting, in location X, with attendee list Y, is feasible, because the room may already be booked, one or more people may already be busy, etc.

Great if you run Outlook. We, however, are using a web-based solution, running off an internal web server, which accomplishes the same task, doesn't require Outlook, and generates sufficiently standard HTML that IE, FireFox and the like are quite happy with it. No more requirement for a specific app or OS. You're running Windows? It works. Linux? It works. OSX? It works.

Show us this "$10,000 better" that you do that *isn't* based upon the adoption of a closed technology when there's an open one available, then maybe you'll have a point.

-- MS, because work should be measured by effort, rather than result.