On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 1:57 PM, terry mcintyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- David Fotland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since I sell software, building Linux apps is out of > > the question, since > > Linux users will insist that I give them my work > > for free. > > I bought a windoze version of Many Faces, and would be > delighted to pay for a Linux version of MFG 12, > whenever that becomes available. Having a "free as in > speech" OS does not preclude supporting the efforts of > commercial developers. > > I see Linux market share increasing. Microsoft > recently announced that Windows XP will be supported > for two more years - presumably due to widespread > discontent with Vista.
If my primary OS was Linux or BSD of some kind, I would not hesitate to pay for programs if they do something I need. There's just one caveat to this, and that is the relative brittleness of version compatibility. My greatest fear is to be locked into a situation like this. This is the current officially supported list of operating systems for Softimage XSI on Linux, a 3d graphics program I use on Windows. Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 4, kernel 2.6.9. Fedora Project Core 3, kernel 2.6.9-1.667smp. Novell SUSE LINUX 9.3. Default GNOME window manager or KDE. You should also be able to run XSI on other Linux distributions provided that you adhere to the following guidelines: Kernel: 2.4.18-3 – 2.6.11 XFree86, XFree86-libs: 4.2.0, 4.3.0 Three distributions officially supported, out of a multitude. All three being somewhat (understatement?) out of date by now. Limitations on the kernel versions. Etc, etc. This, rather than being non-opensource, is why I'd rather use open source on Linux or BSD, so I can recompile programs for my particular installation, rather than hoping the developer will support it explicitly, as well as keeping up with the relatively rapid changes to the kernel and runtime libraries and any other system part the program happen to rely upon. Lars Nilsson
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