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Mac is only at about 3.8 to 4 percent how is it that there is a port to it over Linux? the statistics i have seen were listing Linux at 3.4 to 3.6 area.
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It's just not reasonable to expect small software makers to be able to do that.Īnd in any case what would be their motivation to do that? Unless a company is in direct competition with Microsoft, or they have some personal mission to unseat Microsoft, there's really no incentive for a company to go out of its way to try to increase Linux usage. However only big companies with deep pockets can really afford long-term strategies like that, since even if more companies port their software to Linux, it would take many years for this to have the effect of increasing Linux's market share significantly. I do agree that companies could help increase Linux's usage if they wanted by making lots of apps for Linux, which would make using Linux more attractive for ordinary users.
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So I don't see any evidence that desktop software vendors are being irrational by focusing on the Windows market, or that they would have any bias against developing for Linux if they thought there was money to be made there. Why would you say that? The statistics I've seen say Linux is on around 2.5% of desktop computers, with Windows on over 90%. How much of a market share does linux have to take over before it gets ported? being a linux user i am seeing that it would have to be 98 percent before software makers start porting to it. But these things can be solved with NDA's and other forms of legal basis. I am quite surprised to be honest, someone willing to work for free, and basically give your company a whole new product you can distribute.yet you can't even reply and say no? I can understand the hesitation of giving away your IP, I work for a company that produces java software and understand the implications. But the least they could have done is send a reply. I would be willing to sign a NDA or what ever they would require. I am not in the position to offer help to other software because I do not feel I am qualified to help for the other simulators. The reason I singled clearView out is because it is built on java.
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But the company unprofessionally never replied.Maybe one day they will learn to embrace community support so that we can all benefit, themselves included.īefore singling out ClearView, why not try an experiment? Email 10 other vendors of non-open-source software that you'd like to see Linux ports of, and ask them to send you their source code so you can try porting it to Linux, and report back here on how many of them agree, or even respond to you. Being a programmer, and good with java and linux I can't imagine it being that hard to do for me. I sent an email a long time ago to clearview asking to let me help them port the java code for linux.
However OSX and Thunderbird are active and will let me know if I have new email. In this way I can use ClearView while XP has NO internet access. I have Windows XP running with OSX in the background with Thunderbird running. Parallels also allows running Linux in the same manner as Windows. This might sound weird but what we end up with is OSX with ClearView running in a window just as it were running under OSX. There is even a mode that completely hides the Windows window. Now that version 3.0 has come out yesterday we can run graphic programs like ClearView, Quake 4, etc under XP or Vista. Using Parallels the user actually has both OSX and Windows running at the same time. This has worked will for me for a number of years.
Program using Borland C++ with Windows XP with the internet disabled. The only way that I can ensure that is to never go on line with a clean Windows install.
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I will not go on line in Windows mode because my contract states that I will ensure that the program I wrote is free of anything.
Also when you are running Windows you are open to all the problems Windows has, viruses, etc. Problems is you have to reboot to get to OSX. So, ClearView will run without problems with Boot Camp. I have a 24 inch iMac and playing Quake is neat on the very clear 24 inch screen. I tried a number of Windows games including Quake 4 and they run without problems. Using this program the Intel Mac owner can boot into either (Windows XP or Windows Vista) or OSX, but not both OS's at the same time. Apple has had for some time a free program named Bootcamp. I received e-mail from a customer that runs ClearView on his new dual boot mac using product called parallels.