From: wayne@backbone.uucp (Wayne Schlitt) Subject: Re: Is this becoming comp.linux.advocacy? Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1993 18:27:52 GMT
In article <1993Aug11.142541.16315@taylor.uucp> mark@taylor.uucp (Mark A. Davis) writes:
>
> I think most of you are in the twilight zone on this commercial software
> issue. Again, most software companies will likely never have interest in
> porting to Linux. In theory, at least, *WHO CARES* once Linux has full
> COFF (and ELF to a much lesser extent) compatibility *YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
> RUN THE COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE*. Who wants to wait for "porting"- just slip
> right into the main role of buying SCO ODT (except for some other things
> SCO has like real documentation and multiprocessing/multithreading and such).
Well, you are right, "porting" to Linux should not require lots of
rework in the code, or even a recompile. On the other hand,
"supporting" Linux means that you need to test your releases on it,
make sure the documentation is updated and having the support staff
not say things like "Linux? What the !$#@ is that? Try running on a
different operating system".
This is still a major hurdle to overcome, but _if_ Linux gets is a
significant install base, then I think it will happen. I don't see
anything fundamental about Linux that would stop it from happening.
-wayne
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