In article >, Sqwertz > wrote:
>Phred > wrote:
>
>> In article >, Sqwertz
> > wrote:
>>>Serene Vannoy > wrote:
>>>
>>>> For those of you on Ubuntu, you must check out the Gourmet Recipe
>>>> Manager.
>>>
>>>GRM runs all flavors of Linux, Unix, Windows, BSD and Mac OS X.
>>>
>>>One of the most compelling attractions of [open source] Linux/Unix
>>>software (and operating systems) is that it's not platform
>>>dependent. What runs on one flavor of *nix will most likely run on
>>>any other flavor of *nix. Otherwise Linux would have failed decades
>>>ago.
>>
>> Much the same as Windows. ;-)
>
>Name some open source software that only runs on the non-open course
>Windows operating system. Then compare that list to the open source
>software that runs on Linux.
>
>Not the same at all.

I was commenting on your statement "What runs on one flavor of *nix
will most likely run on any other flavor of *nix." I agree there is
more open source software for Linux at least than for Windows.

Cheers, Phred.

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