Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 26, 2002 12:01 AM
From the looks of OSDIR.com, it's merely the list of applications that have flagged THEMSELVES in sourceforge as stable or better. Out of 107 packages in "Software Development", GCC and GDB aren't listed as anywhere. A package list from a shipping distribution might be a better metric to measure stable applications.
Now, it should be obvious to just about anyone that there wouldn't be a huge market for a text editor when most current Linux users tend to prefer either a vi clone or emacs. However, as KDE and Gnome evolve into more and more complete desktops, the likelyhood that the market for the same kind of text editors that so many shareware companies currently sell for Windows system will also grow as well.
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Re:The real problem with Shareware on Linux
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 26, 2002 12:01 AMNow, it should be obvious to just about anyone that there wouldn't be a huge market for a text editor when most current Linux users tend to prefer either a vi clone or emacs. However, as KDE and Gnome evolve into more and more complete desktops, the likelyhood that the market for the same kind of text editors that so many shareware companies currently sell for Windows system will also grow as well.
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