On 6/26/06, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let me put it this way: I've repeatedly been asked for mingw cross toolchains. In 90% of such cases those people's motivation had been to enable their users/customer to use a product under Win, because "customers want to stay with Win" and "having to switch to Linux to be able to use this product" would cause them not to chose the product.
Right. And if customers choose a competitor's closed source product instead because you provided a Linux-only solution, then what have you achieved? Nothing. If instead you provided a Windows port the customer would be free to switch to Linux in future instead of having even more vendor lock-in.
I.e. I do not share your view. The real motivation for devs to chose mingw is them wanting to avoid their customers getting in touch with Linux.
Linux developers should not follow Microsoft in creating vendor lock-in. The real motivation for using mingw has nothing to do with helping customers avoid Linux. I don't know any Linux software developer who sits there thinking "I wish my customers could avoid using Linux and keep using Microsoft software." The real motivation is usually "I want my customers to choose my software even if they want to use Windows, because then I get commercial support to continue development and help benefit open source software." n0dalus. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
