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IncentivesIncentivesPosted Mar 31, 2012 23:29 UTC (Sat) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)In reply to: Free is too expensive (Economist) by jcm Parent article: Free is too expensive (Economist)
On the other hand, what is the incentive for a software publisher to want to code/package for this "Linux platform" even if it were stable? [Look most coders who say the reason they aren't coding for Linux because ABI/API changes etc are mostly blowing air.. it is the easiest excuse in the book and gets them off the hook from saying the truth of "I have no f'ing reason to want to port to Linux."
With phone I have advertising dollars by selling the information to various companies about what my users are doing. With mac/windows there are programs where I get paid to port my program to another platform if I had a good market. Or if it is important enough, paid NOT to port it to any other platform.
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Incentives Posted Mar 31, 2012 23:48 UTC (Sat) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]
>With phone I have advertising dollars by selling the information to various companies about what my users are doing.
Most of apps on Android/iPhone only display ads, with little to no information transmitted to advertisers.
>With mac/windows there are programs where I get paid to port my program to another platform if I had a good market. Or if it is important enough, paid NOT to port it to any other platform.
Yeah, it's a conspiracy and now we have to kill you for breaching our secrets.
Incentives Posted Apr 1, 2012 6:50 UTC (Sun) by Del- (guest, #72641) [Link]
"With mac/windows there are programs where I get paid to port my program to another platform if I had a good market. Or if it is important enough, paid NOT to port it to any other platform."
Can you provide documentation of the two? Not that I doubt it is happening, but it is helpful to have some reference.
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