We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.
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In some cases we've been building tools that are specific to Linux for the desktop, and they only work on Linux, but I see two major projects that are wildly, wildly successful: Mozilla and OpenOffice, and those two programs are cross platform.
There's innovation in Linux. There are some really good technical features that I'm proud of. There are capabilities in Linux that aren't in other operating systems.
Linux is its own worst enemy: it's splintered, it has different distributions, it's too complex to run for most people.
We have a lot of existing customers which are also considering Linux desktop migrations and rolling out some of these programs, so we're learning from them.
The thing with Linux is that the developers themselves are actually customers too: that has always been an important part of Linux.
All the best people in life seem to like LINUX.
Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests.
Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
I've never regretted not making Linux shareware: I really don't like the pay for use binary shareware programs.
See, you not only have to be a good coder to create a system like Linux, you have to be a sneaky bastard too.
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