RE: [csail-related] gsb: tonight at 5:30pm in 9G

["Paul Elliott" <pelliott@>]

As a lab, Stallman's comment is probably moot - I think everyone writes
cross-platform code or in Java, Lisp, Scheme or some other platform
independent language.  For any business- or personal-oriented software
company, I hope you continue to consider writing cross-platform software
that does RUN on Window as well as, for instance, OS X, at which point your
user can use whichever they want to.

- Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: csail-related-bounces@
[mailto:csail-related-bounces@ On Behalf Of Richard
Stallman
Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2007 6:31 PM
To: Aaron Adler
Cc: csail-related@
Subject: Re: [csail-related] gsb: tonight at 5:30pm in 9G

    My desktop machine broke and so Dell sent me a bunch of parts to try. 
    But none of them fixed the problem. So they sent me a new machine, but 
    it has Vista pre-installed. Yeah, yeah, I know Windows is evil (I'm 
    working on Tablet PC code, so I need Windows).

Windows Vista is much more evil than previous versions.  (See
BadVista.org.)  Perhaps you should complain and insist they send you a
replacement machine with the same Windows version that you had.

I hope that you're not writing software to RUN on Windows.  Each
program written to run on Windows adds to the social inertia that
keeps Windows going.  A year from now, will someone say, "I know
Windows is evil, but I'm using Aaron Adler's code so I need Windows"?

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