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Message: <blockquote data-quote="seebs" data-source="post: 7724649" data-attributes="member: 61529">I cannot believe that you said this, and then dismissed something someone else said as "speculative".Have you ever ported a non-trivial app from non-Linux to Linux? When it was proprietary and no source code was available?You haven't. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":P" title="Stick out tongue    :P"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":P" />Anyway, right now, there's no Linux app. That you think there might be one later is irrelevant.Well, right now? Anything at all. Because the app isn't actually here, it's a future-tense thing. If they'd released a PDF, I'd have the PDF right now and could read it on anything I wanted.Choice of reader apps may not be a specific task, but consider the gap in performance between a good and a bad PDF reader. I had a crappy PDF reader app. Then I got a good one. Suddenly I could swipe through pages and have every page show up as a high quality render in under a second, instead of waiting five seconds for the rendering to finish. Can I read a book with either app? Sure. Is one of them dramatically better than the other? Yes.A heck of a lot less speculative than your suggestion that maybe someday there will be a Linux version. What reason do you have to imagine that this particular proprietary app will last forever, or even maybe twenty years? Because I've got PDFs I've had for twenty years, and they still work.This is stunningly disingenuous. There is no reason to imagine that it would be possible to "port" the app, since there's no evidence that they're going to release source code. (Hint: People whose entire business model is DRM usually don't.) "Vague" preference? That's a pretty dismissive way to dismiss other people's preferences. Why shouldn't other people's preferences matter? Why do their preferences not matter, just because you consider them "vague"? And how on earth can you call someone else's argument "speculative" when you've just asserted, based on no evidence whatsoever, that there will definitely be a Linux port of a proprietary DRM-based app with a relatively small target audience?I've seen things like this come and go. How many of them can you think of that were in use 20 years ago and still work today?</blockquote>

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