From: kevin lyda (kevin at domain suberic.net)
Date: Thu 12 Aug 1999 - 14:17:12 IST
Rob Hill spoke thusly:
>again it's the familiar interface that people want, then there's powerpoint,
>excell, access and (literally) scores of other programs that people are used
>to using - they have learnt a way to do things, and are inflexable when
>it comes to training themselves to use another program (it's depressing really
>)
see my osopinion article on this exact topic. other application vendors
are porting their apps. corel will soon be releasing patches that make
kde nearly completely windows-like. the only thing missing is microsoft
applications. and when it comes down to it, they know not to port their
apps because it will weaken their os sales. leveraging one market to
maintain/capture another. afaik that's illegal in the us.
kevin
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