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Re: The ARRL, Microsoft, and UNIX

Ted Powell (ted@eslvcr.fireplug.net)
Thu, 5 Mar 1998 23:27:17 -0800

On Thu, Mar 05, 1998 at 10:56:07PM -0800, Dave Michelson wrote:
> [...]
> Bill Walker, W5GFE (chair of the CS department at East Central
> University in Oklahoma) recently wrote a nice set of Tcl/Tk-based
> tools [...]
> gently suggested to readers that that any flavour
> of FreeUNIX was worth trying, for all the obvious reasons.)
>
> However, the editor informed him that about 85 percent of the
> readership of QST is heavily involved with some form of MS Windows and
> that articles concerning Linux/UNIX software would therefore *not* be
> appropriate. [...]

What's wrong with this picture?

Tcl/Tk is available as a self-extracting installer for Windows 95,
Windows NT, Windows 3.1, Macintosh 68K and PowerPC, and full source is
also available--all for free--from
http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/7.6.html
http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/8.0.html (most stable)
http://sunscript.sun.com/TclTkCore/8.1.html (alpha 2)

Unless these ports have defects that I'm not aware of (I haven't had
time to try any of them), it seems to me that suggesting that Tcl/Tk
requires Linux/UNIX was rather bad PR.

I feel that getting people to use software which is able to run
on multiple platforms is a step in the direction of reducing Bill's
stranglehold on people's minds, and having them use it on W95 is better
than having them not use it at all.

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