Michael Grant wrote in a message to Roy J. Tellason:

 MG> Hello Roy.

 MG> 16 Oct 03 12:05, you wrote to Sean Dennis:

 SD>> I'm not trying to start an OS flame war here, but I am saying that
 SD>> comments like that are likely to splinter what comradarie that
 SD>> there is here.  We have a common goal and together, we can all
 SD>> achieve it.

 RT> I wonder.  Mine is to get this stuff running under linux.  In the
 RT> case of
 RT> others it seems that maintaining portability to a number of different
 RT> platforms is of somewhat higher importance...

 MG> It's just that some of us don't want the Maximus/Squish effort to
 MG> become a "Linux only" project, and attitudes like Maurice Kinal
 MG> have posted here seem to be pushing for that exact thing. There
 MG> tends to be an attitude of exclusivity held by some Linux "fans",
 MG> whereby Linux developments tend to disregard the needs of other
 MG> OS's.

I can understand that.  I'd like to be running it exclusively here!  As it
stands,  at this point in time there's one w98 box for the grandkids to
play games on,  and this box which still runs dos/dv,  and that's the part
that I'd like to get away from...

 MG> Considering that development on this project stopped in the
 MG> mid-nineties and Maximus/Squish sysops have been waiting a /long/
 MG> time for any new developments, any improvements that can be made
 MG> are badly needed by /all/ Maximus/Squish sysops, regardless of
 MG> their choice in OS. Their OS choices should be accomodated as far
 MG> as possible.

I have no argument with any of this.

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