Fact, Microsoft Windows has the giant market share. If you had a product you were devloping, where would you target it. From that context, develop to the Windows environment, then port to the other environments, Macintosh, Unix and Linux. There are some good native Linux products that use the WINE libraries although they are native. Most developers just don't have the time or inclination to move from Windows. It's either too much trouble or too costly. If I were developing an application from scratch, I personally would make that application portable (partially because I've been involved with porting some rather unportable applications). While WINE tries to allow a Windows executable run on a Linux box, the WINE libraries do allow a developer to build a Linux executable. This is quite a distinction. On 28 Jun 2002 at 6:56, John Blue wrote:
A good point, it is a pity however, that a lot of the development tools seem to be biased towards the M$ windows environment, or do I have the wrong perception here.
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