Re: Burning the Cosmic Commons Talk

From: KPJ (kpj@sics.se)
Date: Tue Oct 17 2000 - 07:46:16 MDT


It appears as if Robin Hanson <rhanson@gmu.edu> wrote:
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|Microsoft offers free software to let you view .ppt files on PCs
|and Macs (A copy of the PC version is at:
|http://hanson.gmu.edu/ppt/PPView97.exe)

Microsoft offers free software to view on PCs *with MS-WINDOWS*.

|So I suppose the complaint is that Microsoft hasn't offered enough
|versions of this software for enough other platforms?

I have not seen anything worthwhile for Linuces from Microsoft.

There exists a product which simulates the PC hardware in software
so one can install the MS-WINDOWS cruft on the virtual hardware.
And then when the MS-WINDOWS crashes or fails in some funny way
one can simply recycle the installation, maybe even automagically.



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