Jacob wrote: "All software should be ported to Linux..."
This is relatively easily done with software libre, but as for
proprietary software, most of which will never be ported, you can always
use Wine ("an Open Source implementation of the Windows API on top of X,
OpenGL, and Unix. Think of Wine as a compatibility layer for running
Windows programs."), which should hit version 1.0 by summer! (June 6
appears to be the goal)
Please see:
http://www.winehq.org/?issue=343#Approaching%20Wine%201.0
http://www.winehq.org/?issue=344#Detailed%20reports%20of%20Wine%201.0%20progress
Once Wine 1.0 is released, it would be nice to see an organized push
towards getting companies to test against it. Even if they aren't going
to release a native port, something that *works* under Linux would be a
nice step (consider Google's Picasa software).
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