11 Aug
2007
11 Aug
'07
4:57 p.m.
>> If OS X is really Unix under the hood, then
why do vendors of several
>> of my high-end applications that are offered in Windoze and OS X
>> versions all say "We have no plans for a Linux version"?
On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, Jules Richardson wrote:
Because they don't want to commit to supporting
827 different combinations of
distribution / kernel version / desktop environment, I suspect. 99% of the
time a piece of software will work regardless of the underlying OS, but
vendors no doubt crap themselves about that 1%...
There are only 827 different versions???
How many different versions would they actually need to creats to be able
to declare that they support Linux?
Shame they can't get their act together and make a
version for a particular
setup though, then still sell an unsupported flavour of the product for any
other combo (but there's all the negative press that people bitching about
things not working in an unsupported environment generates... sometimes users
are their own worst nightmare)
Yep.
Users of Linux #828 and above will "tell the world" that the support
sucks.
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