From: Tobias DiPasquale <anany@...>
Date: 2001-10-08T04:01:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:22208] Re: Let's work on Windows support

Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
> 
> [ruby-talk:22207] Re: Let's work on Windows support
> On Sun, 7 Oct 2001, Furio R. Filoseta (tlf.) wrote:
> 
> > here in Caracas, where I live, there is NO presence of alternative
> > platforms in businesses that do manufacturing.
> [...]
> > So this is not about Microsoft, but about USERS of Microsoft products.
> > Hundreds of users that didn't decide on the OS they are using. Users
> > that would benefit from my application if I was able to write it more
> > robust and I answered to their requirements faster.
> 
> Dear Contextually-Disadvantaged Person,
> 
>         I recommend that you ask your Ministerio de la Industria to offer
> me a grant to develop Ruby.NET. I have nothing planned from mid-April to
> early-September yet, so that may be a good schedule spot. (but first-come,
> first-served)
> 
>                                                 Greetings, and Peace
> 
> ________________________________________________________________
> Mathieu Bouchard                   http://hostname.2y.net/~matju

Or better yet, ask him for the funds to switch the country to Linux.
Which, of course, would save you all kinds of money in the long run, and
free you from any garbage proprietary "solutions" that come out of
Redmond. THAT would be the thing to do.

-- 
Tobias DiPasquale
Solaris System Administrator
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
Villanova University
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