22 Oct
2002
22 Oct
'02
10:20 p.m.
This is the same issue as with Linux Games. Does wine hurt or help?
Well, here's my take: If Linux doesn't run the software they're used to
then they wont use it in the first place. Once there is a marketbase,
then the NEXT generation of stuff would be written natively as they
would see that it gives them more benefit.
Wishing for people to write native apps for a system with no market is
like wishing Windows would die. It might happen, but it's not bloody
likely.
-Lea.
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 11:23, Steve Harris wrote:
I'm not sure this would be a great idea. It looks
good to say we support
90% of DX plugins (or whatever), but it might just disuade developers from
porting to native linux binaries. You can bet DX emulation would be slower
and less reliable than native Windows, giving the impression that Linux
was slow and unreliable.
Given that many of the respected plugin developers allready release for
Windows, Macos and TDM, I dont think they would have a problem with adding
Linux to that list. Not that there is an API for them to port to, but that
is another matter...
- Steve