🚀 go-pugleaf

RISC Amiga wrote:
> Dan Simper wrote:
> 
>>Everyone is stealing the software now, so nobody can earn $$$ with it
>>! Linux is DOOMED !
> 
> 
> 
> True, software companies don't dare to publish commercial software
> under Linux, because they fear it would be pirated.
> 
> For example:
> IBM (& Dassault systemes) is producing the "killer app" CATIA-software
> suite only for Windows and AIX.
> They could anytime publish it under Linux - they even admitted that
> inside IBM, they've long compiled it under Linux!
> It would be foolish now to conclude they want the AIX/Power5-platform
> to be sold and boycott Lin-tel machines: Nope, they're move
> not to support Linux is achieving the opposite: Users are driven to use
> the cheaper Windows-machines! The real reason is that
> they have REASONABLE DOUBT that Linux users that paid $0.00 for their
> OS (and found the PC's motherboard somewhere on
> an electronics junk-yard) would EVER pay $50.000,00 for a piece of
> software...
> 
> In other words, only those users that have paid a chunk of money for
> the operating system are trusted also to pay for software lateron
> 

The exact same thing with Alias|Wavefront refusing to release their
personal learning edition of Maya for Linux.

It's not like they haven't ported it; they've been selling the
commercial version for Linux for many years. They're just scairt of
the Open Source community...