On Tuesday 09 March 2004 23:34, Amish Munshi wrote:
Dear all,
I would like to create a sharply defined list of say, ten specific problems which students from engineering colleges
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First try freshmeat. Very few areas exist where free software is not as good as closed software. Most problems are due to requirements for signing NDAs or absent / wrong documentation of closed formats.
Some of the suggestions I have received so far have been interesting. These include:
* Developing an open source tool like VM Ware that can runboth Windows and Linux off the same CPU
There is one already existing called Bosch.
* Developing an open source VoIP product like Skype
Vocal, gnomemeeting, Speakfreely
* Getting Internet Explorer working (natively?) on Linux(This will be of particular help in increasing the penetration of Linux in banks since many banking applications, though browser based, are optimized to work on Linux)
You mean mangled to work on IE. Load Firebird and you should be done. If the app is W3C compliant u shouldnt have a problem. In any case cant see how IE can work without porting all the crap that linux has got rid of.