I am referring to your assertion that the impediment is programmers
who are inadequately competent to make their apps cross-platform
compatible. Please explain the rationale behind this claim.
73,
Dave, AA6YQ
--- In [email protected], kd4e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> The only thing that stands between Linux and the
> >> common user today is friends-of-MS who refuse to
> >> make drivers (or driver info) available for Linux
> >> and programmers who are inadequately competent
> >> to make their apps cross-platform compatible.
> >
> > And you say this based on your experience developing
> > and deploying which cross-platform applications?
> >
> > 73, Dave, AA6YQ
>
> I am not sure I understand the purpose of this
> challenge to facts that are common knowledge.
>
> One *has* to be a software developer to observe
> anti-competitive or incomplete development practices?
>
> The models for cross-platform apps are all over the
> place, they are not hard to find. This is not a
> secret.
>
> I have been on the procurement side in business,
> government, and non-profits.
>
> I am also very aware of the profit-motive for
> excluding open-source versions of drivers and apps.
>
> Even as a private user I have wasted hundreds of
> hours trying to get hardware products to work only
> to be told by the manufacturer that they *chose*
> to refuse Linux access to minimal info. necessary
> to write their own drivers. This anti-competitive
> (on the software side) conduct is well-documented.
>
> It is a really dumb practice because the growing
> numbers of Linux users are communicating via the
> Internet and are refusing to buy from uncooperative
> hardware manufacturers -- this too is no secret.
>
> --
>
> Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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