On Sun January 4 2004 09:20 pm, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
On Sunday 04 January 2004 9:01 pm, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 20:51:44 -0500
"Paul W. Abrahams"
wrote: TurboTax is a particularly critical case because there will never be a Gnu version of it. No individual or group in the Gnu community would ever commit to updating the program annually in a major way to account for changes in the tax laws. Now if someone would bribe Intuit to come out with a Linux version ...
I think as Linux grows in popularity, more vendors will port to Linux.
Would it were so! I've seen no sign of it, and Linux on the home desktop isn't doing that well, in contrast to Linux as an enterprise system. Red Hat seems to be abandoning the home user market, at least as a moneymaker.
It would sure be good if there were an interoperable set of API functions that was so enticing to software developers that they'd use it even without the incentive of a Linux port. Then the Linux port would essentially be a freebie for them.
Paul Abrahams
And M$ would continue to change/break them, just like they did with OS/2. Best to get out of the Windows game entirely. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 01/05/04 09:34 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Creditors have better memories than debtors." --Ben Franklin