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If You Port It, They Will Come

Posted by timothy on from the or-they-will-get-by-regardless dept.

An anonymous reader submits "An excellent rant^H^H^H^Harticle is up over at LinuxLaboratory.org, encouraging proprietary companies that make software for Windows to provide a full-featured equivalent for Linux. The argument being made that users aren't cheap skates, they will pay for good software. But many companies that port software to Linux will only ship stripped-down versions, leading to people not buying the software when they can buy the complete version for Windows, then the company not providing the software for Linux because it didnt sell. The argument is made that if the Linux version were equivalent to the Windows version, then people will buy it."

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  1. Of course by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Because it worked so well for Loki, Corel, and countless others. Face it guys, Linux users are cheapskates and won't pay for anything. It doesn't pay to port things to Linux, you won't get any money back.

  2. Sounds Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Lets write commercial software for a os built on the idea of free software!

  3. leenuux is for loosers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    leenuux is just not kewl anymore. it's a fraud that leenuux is stable when evidently going from 2.0 to 2.2 to 2.4 to 2.5 to 2.6 stability keeps cropping up as an issue. maybe by the time leenuux gets to 1000.30, it will finally have a stable vm under load and a filesystem that doesn't loose data.

  4. Re:i dunno about this... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Your mom seems to ork pretty good when I put this carrot up her bum.

  5. Uh, money? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Do some people PRETEND that they live in a non-capitalist society? Is it fun? What's the allure?