![]() ![]() Here's the problem, they can't find out if the Linux ecosystem can sustain their model unless they gives us the chance to prove it can. I am a big fan of WINE but a company waiting on WINE developers to decide to work on making software work and then convince users to buy a license for an unsupported WINE version is just not reasonable. (at the very least, agree they will support the software under WINE) Create crowd-funding campaign to gauge interest. Serif creates the campaign and sets the price for the campagin to whatever they think it will cost to do the development and we as a community promote the campaign to gather support. This allows us to have a single thing to promote and allows us to consolidate the effort of people knowing where to go to show their support. It also is a method of seeing not only how many people want it but also how many people are willing to pay because we would have to put our money up in the campaign. ![]() Serif finds out how many Linux users are willing to make this happen. In fact, they can make larger tiers than regular price to see how many people are ultra-interested. If the campaign is successful they get the money to make the software support Linux without worry about if there is enough people to justify it. If it isn't successful, no one loses any money and they get an answer to the question "is there enough people in the platform to justify the upfront cost of our software?". I think any other method of trying to find out will take years and will be heavily skewed. This method will allow us to consolidate effort to promote it and gives us a chance to actually prove it. It also gives people like myself the opportunity to promote it such as on my podcasts and on. Plus all the other news sites that could promote it then. ![]()
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