If You Port It, They Will Come

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."

Comments

Yeah exactly!!!.... Just like Loki... wait a sec

[Foxman98]

Yeah that's a great idea! I mean we should do this with games! Provide native linux versions! Just like that company Loki.... Wait a sec, they went bankrupt. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

OT, and trollish, and redundant....

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

But I can't resist...

for as long as you can get Windows to work, anyway

Do Linux-only users seriously believe this? I have never had a problem getting Windows to work (other than NT on shitty hardware, but I had that problem with Linux too).

I run WindowsXP primarily, but even when I was running Win98, I never had problems. Linux, on the other hand, ate my data one time (luser error on my part :).

Honestly, it's stupid comments like this that make it more difficult for me to get others to try Linux. If anything, Windows is easier to get working than Linux nine times out of ten.

Now, getting Windows secure on the other hand...