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Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)



On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 01:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2008/6/24 Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca>:
> > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:31 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> >> If anyone has any proprietary Windows apps that they'd like to see
> >> ported to Linux, then mention them and I will write to the developers
> >> as well.
> >
> > Wouldn't it be a better thing in the long term to encourage vendors to
> > take a far more user-friendly stance in terms of licensing (i.e., The
> > Right Thing), such as Tripwire, Red Hat, SugarCRM, et. al. have already
> > done done?
> >
> 
> In the long term, yes, I would encourage vendors to provide less
> restrictive licensing. In the short term, I have one baby and another
> on the way and everyone wants to eat. Just having the program running
> on Linux would be a start.

Is it possible to wine your way out of this one?  Forgive me if this has
already been brought up; I appear to only have the thread after the
subject change.

-- 
Paul Johnson
baloo@ursine.ca

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