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Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
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Date: 
Wed, 20 Aug 2003 00:08:31 GMT
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In lugnet.cad.dev, Ray Sanders wrote:

With all due respect, writing it in .NET leaves the non-Windows people out in
the cold. Java (while it does have an occasional drawback or two) is portable
and will run transparently on Windows, Macs and the various unices. This is not
an anti-MS thing, its a pro-portability thing. If it could be written to the
J2ME standard (Java-2 Micro Edition) its possible that it could even run on a
PDA (Palm, Handspring, etc).


Well you're more than welcome to write your own in Java.

jt



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  Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
 
(...) I agree whole-heartedly. As far as I'm concerned, it's totally inappropriate for people to complain about free software. Constructive criticism is a good thing, because it can help improve the software, but complaining about the author's (...) (21 years ago, 20-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, FTX)

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  Re: announcing TrackDraw (BrickFest preview)
 
(...) With all due respect, writing it in .NET leaves the non-Windows people out in the cold. Java (while it does have an occasional drawback or two) is portable and will run transparently on Windows, Macs and the various unices. This is not an (...) (21 years ago, 19-Aug-03, to lugnet.cad.dev)

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