On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 12:45 PM, Joao Monteiro <[email protected]> wrote: > Haha, noticed lol... > > I have been using Turbocad for nearly two decades and rely heavily on it for > my electric schematics. Sadly, the software authors/company never provided > any drivers for linux. And after a fairly deep search for alternatives, the > odd couple of them available are exceedingly inadequate and unstable in > behaviour for my cad needs. > > Not a Linux shortcoming, see... just one of the many cases where > authors/developers don't bother considering linux usage for it when > developing it. > > So the question obviously is: why don't software developers in some areas > even bother with linux when developing their applications? > > I leave it at that... ;) >
That's easy - they do not perceive the Linux market to be large enough to warrant the development effort (which is odd considering that it's very close to UNIX, a la MAC). There is also the pervading FOSS environment that prevails in Linux systems. Please bottom post as per the list etiquette rules. MR -- xubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
