On Thu, 2006-03-02 at 12:29, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
its just my personal opinion. i can for sure understand that for some people a temp workaround is more important but then again i know from experience that workarounds just take away the motiviation to do something about real solutions ;).
The argument would seem more compelling if you had answered that there was a difference you could see...
If enough people scream things will move. demand is important. if everyone that "has demand" uses a workaround theres absolutely no reason for them to do anything.
I think you are shooting yourself in the foot here. It's one thing to demand a free Linux download for 1% of the market but now you want to make that a bunch of different versions, each with their own quirks (AMD doesn't make the only 64 bit processor).
For a vendor its the question if their technology becomes obsolete or not. if they dont support arches that are becoming more and more popular then they loose market share and if the market share is small enough the technology is pretty easy to obsolete ;) i wish wed be there already.
I'd be happy if it just wasn't all windows already.