<div class="gmail_quote">2010/1/9 Brent Fulgham <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bfulgham@gmail.com">bfulgham@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> Hi Chris,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Chris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:blupub@yahoo.com" target="_blank">blupub@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td valign="top" style="font:inherit">Windows accounts for 90% of (consumer) operating systems in use worldwide.<br><br>It would be only fair to assume that most developers are writing software for Windows (because that's where most of the money is to be had).<br> </td></tr></tbody></table></blockquote><div><br></div></div><div>While you are probably right, the unfortunate fact is that the number of developers familiar with Windows, who are willing to work on Open Source software, is relatively small.</div> </div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>These two things (the potential for money and the willingness to work without getting it) seem to correlate strongly. Add to that the fact that software companies tend to want to use OSS (because it's free) but are not keen to improve it (because it's not free, and others can collect on your investment too), and you are in a situation where there is potential for wider userbase but nobody wants to invest (neither time nor money) in making it happen.</div> <div><br></div><div>-- </div></div>Kalle Vahlman, <a href="mailto:zuh@iki.fi">zuh@iki.fi</a><br>Powered by <a href="http://movial.com">http://movial.com</a><br>Interesting stuff at <a href="http://sandbox.movial.com">http://sandbox.movial.com</a><br> See also <a href="http://syslog.movial.fi">http://syslog.movial.fi</a><br><br>