[WEB4LIB] Re: New Terminal Server Licensing

[Jon Knight]

On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Richard L. Goerwitz wrote:
> > Please excuse my ignorance of Linux.  Does it allow my DOS and Windows
> > applications to run on the server?
> 
> Don't be defensive.  You're being needled in a very gentle way.  Mike
> is just questioning the assumption that you (and the rest of us) are
> all simply hostages to Microsoft's arbitrary licensing changes.

And yes, you can often run MS-DOS and MS-Windows programs under Linux:
check the dosemu and Wine projects.  Dosemu is pretty complete (I used it
for a CD-ROM gateway a few years ago and even then it would run most of
the CD-ROM apps we had).  Wine is a little more "alpha" quality, but it
will still run lots of MS-Windows applications.  I used to use it to run
Word very occationally when someone sent me a *.DOC or *.RTF file (I don't
need to now with catdoc and rtf2html plus the fact that usually
emailed Word file -> cack not worth reading IMHO).

Tatty bye,

Jim'll

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