Petition: Windows software to Linux

[jaboua]

There is a petition here, about windows software being ported to linux... Everybody sign!

Bring Windows games and software to Linux. Now we have games out there that could be for Linux but hasn't been released for Linux. There is also title software like Quicken, Macromedia Shockwave, Flash, Finale, the list goes on forever. Now though there may be Open Source equivalents, why can't we have the same software. Let's speed up the evolution of Linux. If the same software for Windows appears on Linux, more people will use it and we can finally give Microsoft what it deserves. Show the software companies that we want more software and sign this petition.

[a thing]

That would be the worst possible thing you could do.

Go sit in the corner.

[bigtomrodney]

Maybe a year or two ago I would have signed up, but to be honest I get a better of standard these days with FOSS. Obviously there are exceptions to this but on the whole the devleopment and enthuiasm makes these worht waiting for. Amarok is simply my favourite media player. Full Stop.

I think where we are lacking is enterprise software. I don't mean Exchange or something along those lines, but really third party vendors should at this stage be investing in the expertise to produce software for linux as they do for windows. Most vendors I know only work in VB. Not really the ideal anyway, but certainly restricts you to platform. This needs to be addressed.

[jaboua]

Maybe a year or two ago I would have signed up, but to be honest I get a better of standard these days with FOSS. Obviously there are exceptions to this but on the whole the devleopment and enthuiasm makes these worht waiting for. Amarok is simply my favourite media player. Full Stop.

I prefer open source apps me too, but choice is certainly not a bad thing. Commercial apps will extend what you can choose between, and some people in addition need commercial apps to do for example their job (in such cases FOSS apps which do the job or support the format needed for the job, for example). Many of these guys have to use windows to be able to do their jobs, so having linux versions available IMO won't be a bad thing.

EDIT: Linux versions of games wouldn't hurt either

[a thing]

Yes, it would hurt A LOT. Keep going along those lines and there won't be any FOSS anymore.

[eerok]

A petition for hardware vendors to release info on their drivers as open source would be nice ... but the petition above is ill-conceived for reasons already stated.

[benjamin20]

games are abit dofferent than productive software. with productive software you have software that people need. with games you have software people want. with not game entertainment software you have software people dont want to have to wory about.

so

non game entertainmnet software should be included with os or open source, so people dont have to buy every little entertainment app.

productive software should be open sourced or extreamy cheap because it is often critical to the economy.

games should be comercial. (well, small games like puzzle games should be open sourced) simply because its not neccisary but its a costly thing to make. so it should work something like how movies work, and they do (although i would like to se open souceing the engine become standard.)

so there is a place for comercial and a place for open sorce and even a place for free ware. but there is no place for spyware.

[techieMoe]

A petition for hardware vendors to release info on their drivers as open source would be nice ...

There are a few of these, if I remember correctly. I don't remember the links though.

[a thing]

so there is a place for comercial and a place for open sorce and even a place for free ware.

Was that supposed to make sense? Open source can be commericial, it's the first section of the definition.

[jaboua]

so there is a place for comercial and a place for open sorce and even a place for free ware.

Was that supposed to make sense?

For me it does