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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx