There is proprietary software for Linux, but it is sold online a lot of times by small companies. I for one think it's an HP and it comes with tech support is dubious at best. This is often not so great where a lot of times it means that there is something about the computer that makes it difficult to use Linux. There is a weird BIOS or there is an integrated sound card that doesn't work in Linux or something else.
One company that sells games for Linux is http://www.mygamecompany.com/. Lately, I hear they are adding a new Linux title every month. Another proprietary software package for Linux is Crossover Linux. Vmware Workstation is a proprietary software package for Linux. For a while at least, HP offered a Linux based laptop and/or desktop system. Don't know if this is the case anymore. I wish I had the skills to start my own software company that specializes in selling useful proprietary programs for Linux at reasonable prices. I would try to open source that software over time. I would love to get my hands on the source code to Mapinfo for example and bring it over to Linux. If I could get my hands on TurboTax and port it, it would probably take very little work to update it. Another thing I wish I could do is significantly help the ReactOS developers get their Windows XP replacement stabilized. I question if having a Windows compatible operating system under the GPL is doable or even the best approach, but there do seem to be some applications that just don't get ported. A lot of games don't get ported and Crossover Games only goes so far. I would like to see the big stores get hurt when it comes to selling computers if those computers continue to be fairly useless when you don't use Windows on them. If I buy a Windows machine and I want to run Linux on it, I should be able to do that and still have a warranty. The Linux Asus Eee PC by the way has been working quite well for my nephew and it comes that way. The guy at Preheim computers that sold it to me said he hates Linux, but that didn't deter me. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
