Scott Ritchie schrieb:
On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 22:33 -0800, Dan Kegel wrote:
I used to hate the term ISV (Independent Software Vendor) since it sounded so acronymy compared to 'developer', but it's very commonly used in the industry to refer to outfits which are trying to write and sell off-the-shelf software -- and as monkey-boy said, Microsoft is where it is partly because it worked hard to attract and support those guys.
So I've been thinking about how to attract more Windows ISVs to test, support, and promote their apps on Linux with Wine.
DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS!
IMHO all this stuff goes a bit too much into the wrong direction.
I really fear that this will end up with vendors loudly advertising linux support and proudly putting linux stickers on their products where everything you find inside are just the same windows .exe files and a readme stating that these will work fine with wine. Which at least is not what I would like to see.
The main thing the _developers_ should be pointed to(if they care about their product on other platforms then windows) are some decent docs about platform-independent programming :p
Maybe it's just me but when reading all this I got the feeling that writing windows applications(which work with wine) is just *the* way to go. Why the hell are we running linux then?
Not that I generally disagree with what you wrote. Actually it's mostly totally fine.And it's definitly a good thing when vendors care about their product running with wine or companies migrating to linux trying to get their highly-specialized-app to work with wine. But imho it _shouldn't_ be the long term solution.
Peter
I support this idea.
-Scott Ritchie