* Jerry Feldman (gerald.feldman@hp.com) [020903 08:54]: ::It's all a matter of demand. If the software companies see a market in the ::Linux space, they will port their apps to Linux. ::Another way apps get ported is if a vendor pays then to do so. This is true ::in the commercial Unix marketplace, and I assume that Apple induces vendors ::to make applications available. I'm not digging on you Jerry, but I use to hear this all the time when it was OS/2 in place of Linux. In reality the ISV's just felt that it wasn't worth it to port Windows software to OS/2 because OS/2 had the Windows emulation layer. They figured why port it to a native app when it will run in emulation. And ya know what..it never got done and then MS strongarmed the other guerilla and IBM pretty much flushed OS/2. I realize that MS can't pressure any Linux company.. But the whole situation feels very simular to me. *shrug* My point is that if OSX can have native apps and games, so can Linux. I don't like being though of as a person who " won't pay for software..must have the src code or I won't use it..etc..etc." I don't want the src to some monolithic 3D shooter...what the hell would I do with it. But I would really like these games and the like. :) -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org Tell me what you believe.. I tell you what you should see.