From: jeffreyj@kitty.ksu.ksu.edu (Jeffrey John Martin) Subject: Re: "Killer app" Date: 27 May 1993 13:50:26 -0500
dthumim@athena.mit.edu (Daniel J Thumim) writes:
>All this talk about developing a WYSIWYG-like WP, maybe with an
>interface to [La]TeX is nice, but it's not a "killer app" that will get
>DOS/windoze users to run linux. They like their Wordperfect or 123 for
>windoze or whatever they have. The "killer app" for linux would be
>something allowing users to run windoze apps... if people can run their
>favorite windoze apps directly under linux/X, then I think that linux
>will become much more attractive to many people. Then others will write
>self-help books about it and pretty X administration utils, etc. 8-)
This is the bait to get them to bite. Give them a window running ms-windows
and let them play with Linux and such.