Julian wrote in message <3533A723.3AAC4386@tig.com.au>...
>Sadly Doesn't look like moray will be ported at the moment...there no
>$$$ in it, well then if thats the case, so be it...but would hate to see
>


>I believe linux and its many free appliations will play a big part in
>disrupting ol Bill Gates and his dream of the MS empire in the future to
>come...people will soon realise the Advantages of Linux (besides being
>FREE), and its good will of its many developers, heres a little quote i


These two statements sum up why there aren't very many people willing
to port applications that cost $$ to Linux.  Linux is free, that's why
people
like it.  Also stated is free software to go along with the free OS.  So why
would a developer want to port a piece of SW that is earning him/her
$$ to a platform that everyone expects everything to be free.  I constantly
get request to port to Linux, but if I did port it would take me at least
a year.

> constantly developing (at speeds MS could only dream of) people are
> coding all the time for it and I would hate to see a Moray ripoff, but
> as the saying goes "If you don't do it someone else will"

I constantly get requests and see requests for Moray to port to Linux.  My
question is why there isn't a group working on a Moray "ripoff" for Linux?
I say go for it.  The Linux people should be able to "ripoff" Moray at
speeds
only Windows developers can dream of.

> "A better question is how do software companies get away with charging
> so much? Software is not like making a car. Once you've made one copy of
> your software, the production costs to make a million more are tiny

The cost of SW is not in its media costs.  Its in the cost of the bits that
go on the
media.

    Jeff

Post a reply to this message