Re: I've had it with Windows--I'm switching to Linux

Stephan Rose wrote:
J.O. Aho wrote:

An app I am developing right now, and essentially every app I will be
developing in the future, is cross-platform to run on Windows, Linux, and
Mac.
Keep in mind, if you say "support Linux", then you have the big/little
endian to think about too, quite many architectures uses big endian, but I
guess you only mean Linux x86 and with Mac only "Mactels".
To be honest, my primary targets are Linux and Windows. Mac is sort of a
bonus that I am not all *that* worried about...at least not at this point
in time. I probably won't even really support Mac until someone actually
makes a request for it or asks for it.

So it will work on my Sparc and PowerPC Linux boxes...


Well I don't generally write applications for the mass-market. I specialize
in either customer-specific applications or high-end commercial apps. So
usually I don't worry about winning popularity contests with the average
user. =)

In those cases you may even earn more one selling support than the application
itself, thats how most of the Linux companies earn money.


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//Aho
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