Would you pay for commercial software for Linux?

Digital Wokan plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Sun, 25 Nov 2001 15:20:31 -0700


I bought Q3 for Linux, but thanks to a lack of S3 Savage4 drivers that
play nice, I ended up downloading the Winderz point release to actually
be able to get more than 1FPS.

At least I bumped the Linux side of the software sales up a unit.

Jiva DeVoe wrote:
> 
> To settle a dispute with someone:
> 
> Would you pay for commercial software for Linux?  Ie: Say, games,
> productivity applications, etc?
> 
> If so, why does it seem that most linux commercial software ventures
> fail?
> 
> (Distribution vendors are exempted from the above statement.)