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Proprietary Software for Ubuntu--What Will It Mean?
- pjmlp 14y agoIf it would be possible to create commercial software that could work across multiple distributions seamlessly, there would be the need of focusing in specific ones. Each distribution that a vendor needs to support increases development and technical support costs. This is nothing new, Linux distributions are just replicating the chaos many of us had to endure across commercial UNIX systems in the 80-90's.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoGraphical applications tend to be far less portable than command-line apps though, no?
- pjmlp 14y agoThe same issue also applies to command line applications, specially because not all UNIX systems implement the same POSIX version, with the same behaviours. Like any other standard, each vendor likes to implement certain parts its own way.
- TazeTSchnitzel 14y agoSo a bit like web development then? sigh
- pjmlp 14y agoyup
- jejones3141 14y agoSome of the benefits are widespread--for example, the new improved nVidia drivers aren't tied to Ubuntu. For the rest, proprietary software vendors should realize that supporting multiple Linux distributions benefits them. It's good to not have a single point of failure that Microsoft or Apple can attack.
- mistercow 14y agoI expect what will happen, if this becomes a major advantage of Ubuntu over other distros, is that projects will surface to create a sort of emulated Ubuntu sandbox for proprietary software targeted at Ubuntu. It will be sort of like Wine, except that it will work way better.
- macco 14y agoI don't understand that, if you can run it on Ubuntu you can run it everywhere else. Maybe you have change packaging a bit, but this is nonsense conversation. We should be glad that Ubuntu is gaining traction.
- technomancy 14y agoInstalling proprietary software without my consent was actually the main reason I ditched Ubuntu for Debian.
- lbolognini 14y agoWhat will it mean? That the Linux crowd has grown up!