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<blockquote data-quote="mythusmage" data-source="post: 1157458" data-attributes="member: 571">The Funny Thing Is...Heard from a chap at MacSoft some years back that the big thing when porting Windows software to the Mac was, cleaning up the code. Seems that Windows is a bit too error tolerant, so that mistakes that would stymie a Mac present no problem to a Windows machine. That alone can add a lot to the cost of porting.Hopefully, as the Linux market grows, more software companies will start producing Linux products. Which will lead to more people switching to Linux. Which will lead to...Even better (as far as I'm concerned) would be a software consortium doing an IBM clone version of Apple's OSX, based on the Darwin kernel. With the aim of producing a platform as compatible with the Mac, and Unix machines, as possible. To minimize the work needed to port software from one platform to another and so maximize sales as much as possible.Alan's Weird Idea #2,952A line of software that comes with a built in optimizer. The customer would load the software into his machine. The software would then check the machine's harddrive to 'see' what platform is being used and then optimize the program for that platform. Thus the same disk could be used on multiple platforms with no need for manual porting.Obviously this would require software platforms more 'compatible' with other platforms than presently.Of course, even better would be a dictat from the Feds telling the computer business to come up with a common standard, hardware and software, within a certain period, or a standard will be imposed. But in the present &quot;Big Business is God&quot; climate that aint very likely.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mythusmage, post: 1157458, member: 571"] [b]The Funny Thing Is...[/b] Heard from a chap at MacSoft some years back that the big thing when porting Windows software to the Mac was, cleaning up the code. Seems that Windows is a bit too error tolerant, so that mistakes that would stymie a Mac present no problem to a Windows machine. That alone can add a lot to the cost of porting. Hopefully, as the Linux market grows, more software companies will start producing Linux products. Which will lead to more people switching to Linux. Which will lead to... Even better (as far as I'm concerned) would be a software consortium doing an IBM clone version of Apple's OSX, based on the Darwin kernel. With the aim of producing a platform as compatible with the Mac, and Unix machines, as possible. To minimize the work needed to port software from one platform to another and so maximize sales as much as possible. [b]Alan's Weird Idea #2,952[/b] A line of software that comes with a built in optimizer. The customer would load the software into his machine. The software would then check the machine's harddrive to 'see' what platform is being used and then optimize the program for that platform. Thus the same disk could be used on multiple platforms with no need for manual porting. Obviously this would require software platforms more 'compatible' with other platforms than presently. Of course, even better would be a dictat from the Feds telling the computer business to come up with a common standard, hardware and software, within a certain period, or a standard will be imposed. But in the present "Big Business is God" climate that aint very likely. [/QUOTE]

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