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To: AFreeBird
It might also help bring some of those titles to Linux. Since OS/X is *nix based, having it on Intel architecture should make it easier to port those applications to Linux.

Fat chance. Not because it's technically difficult, as you infer, but because the vendors aren't convinced many in the Linux crowd are willing to pay anything for their software.

36 posted on 06/11/2005 2:11:28 PM PDT by Golden Eagle
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To: Golden Eagle
Fat chance. Not because it's technically difficult, as you infer, but because the vendors aren't convinced many in the Linux crowd are willing to pay anything for their software.

Oracle and DB2, some of the most expensive software in the world, run on Linux.

58 posted on 06/11/2005 3:28:18 PM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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