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Interesting thread

Posted Apr 9, 2004 7:49 UTC (Fri) by aseigo (guest, #18394)
In reply to: Interesting thread by libra
Parent article: Mozilla Looking to Forge Alliances (MozillaZine)

no, i don't get your point because i don't really care if it runs natively
on MS Windows or not. it runs on every OS i care to use, and having it on
Windows, which already HAS a decent file manager, is not even remotely
relevant to Free / Open Source software.

you said you wanted a file manager with FTP / webdav support. well, we
have that right now on UNIX/Linux, as does Windows and MacOS X. on
UNIX/Linux it happens to be in the form of Konqueror (among others, i'm
sure). how does having a file manager that runs on Windows and Linux (to
simplify it to two OSes) help ANYthing?

right. it doesn't.

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Interesting thread

Posted Apr 9, 2004 11:53 UTC (Fri) by libra (guest, #2515) [Link]

In fact it is cornerstone to users migration from one platform to another. The other point is that I don't consider explorer on mswindows to be descent, it handles webdav badly (even if it certainly one of the best for that matter), and a lot of other things too (even when you spend time configuring it to behave better).

The fact that for you the current situation is satisfying doesn't mean it can not be improved or is satisfying for everyone else. But maybe I'm wrong, and it would in fact be quite relieving, because even with the battle for better infrastructure on the desktop is lost there would be less bad consequence if I'm wrong. But if I'm right, losing that battle can damage our hopes of freedom and innovation greatly.