Linux deployment . . .

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin
<ambassador at fourthworld.com> wrote:
> Richmond Mathewson wrote:
>>
>> How many users of this list think that RunRev are wasting their time,
>> effort and limited
>> resources continuing development of a Linux version ?
>
> Count me among them.

In the "iPadding around" thread, you seemed to be in support of RunRev
continuing Linux development.
But here you say you think they are wasting their time.

Confused.....


> When we look at where Linux is being used I see enormous opportunities for
> specialized apps, even commercial ones, of the vertical sort Rev is ideally
> suited for.

That's interesting. I have never come across any commercial market for
Linux apps of the sort that I thought I could create using Rev.


> Lest we forget, where would we be without publicly-funded software?  OS X is
> BSD at its core, created at publicly-funded UC Berkeley.  And the first web
> browser, Mosaic, which spawned Navigator and ultimately Mozilla's Firefox,
> began life at the publicly-funded NCSA.


I certainly don't expect Linux to go away, but I just don't think it
fits well with RunRev. We can't create a browser or an operating
system in revTalk.

So I am with Richard's statement above (which may not say what he
meant it to say) and you can also count me among the people who think
RunRev's resources would be better allocated elsewhere.

I also feel that it would be more honest of them to admit that Linux
is a second-class citizen in the Rev world and does not have all the
features of the other platforms. Apart from one post by Richard, every
post that I can remember about Rev on Linux has been negative. This is
not good for RunRev and not fair to their customers.

Regards,
Sarah