> Forget about the windows developers. They have paid the high price tag
> for that OS already.
From the previous suggestions, peopel assume that Windows users have
multiple versions of Windows, which means multiple versions of licensing, at
a very exhorbitant cost.
> How about developers who use Linux? Are there Linux versions of these
> tool coming? All I heard so far are "NT", "2000", "XP", "CW", ...
Palm (like most other commercial companies) do not yet see Linux as
something they want to leverage, due to many misconceptions concerning the
differences between 'free' and 'Free', as well as the confusion about the
salability of Linux applications.
I have spoken directly to companies like Palm, Macromedia, etc. and
get a similar response that "..we'll lose money if we make our product
available for Linux, because we have to give it away for free, and give the
source code away..". This is a huge misconception. You can keep the source
code closed if it runs on Linux, you can sell it to people if it runs on
Linux, or you can give it away for free, including source, or sell the
application AND give the source away. There are many different ways of
supporting Linux, while still keeping your source code proprietary, AND
making money on the code itself.
It is, however, more difficult to maintain a portable solution that
works with Linux, Macintosh, Win32 and keep the development moving forward
without delays. Witness the great work Keith Rollin and the community are
doing to improve POSE, while still fixing portability buglets and other
issues.
> And by the way, even fewer reboots if you use Linux!
Fewer, or none.
Unless you have a fatal kernel crash or a power outage or a hardware
upgrade, you don't need to reboot. In fact, with the newer linux kernels,
you don't even have to reboot across hardware upgrades *OR* kernel upgrades.
With vmware running on top of Linux, you literally can develop on dozens of
operating systems at the same time. I do that with about 12 Linux
distributions, and 4 versions of Win32 versions, all on Debian, all without
rebooting.
/d
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