just trolling:Commercial apps for ubuntu

[irish rebel]

Guys I have been using linux as my desktop since 1998 and specifically my entire household including wife , 4 kids have been using linux for the past 4 years entirely .My kids play games for a while freecraft provided son#1 with his strategy needs but he has moved onto world of warcraft and has acheived some elvish level previously unheard of , I had used wine for a while but a few crashes in the middle of some great battle in which the entire orc nation had attacked him, left me with no choice but to get cedega and the fact that it is available is great . Son#2 plays quake 4 and unreal tournement 2004 and as they have a native version that is great. they both use streamtuner for online radio ect ect.
Girl #1 is almost 5 and plays with gcompris all the time it is a great free program.
My wife uses it for email and shopping so her needs are fine.Myself Ok well I am a linux consultant I work mostly with public school districts in new york and new jersey a server here or there up to last summer, then I started getting actual desktops to do, and surprisingly it wasnt in office desktops it was classroom desktops.1 lab had a computer training lab we put Suse 9.3 on it [ubuntu had hardware issues with dell] I also ended up installing Crossover on them all at $39 per licence it allows them to use some cisco software that they needed.
On my home pc I run ubuntu breezy great os ....I use crossover fopr dvd shrink and itunes as well as photoshop I think it well worth it I also use moneydance at $29.00 a good finance program. I did buy nero but instead I use k3b as I think it better in many ways.
My troll I guess is this what are your feeling on say linspires possable offer to provide a fee based click and run client for ubuntu? also their apparent offer to provide legit multimedia codecs for ubuntu[ i personally feel this is great]
Linux to be successful will need support from mainstream app makers, this is not to imply that free software is poor . If linspire came up with a mplayer based mediaplayer with the codecs ect ect and extra skins and all that . I think that would be worth paying for also lsongs and lphoto I personally feel are the two better apps that linspire have. What do you guys think?

[Trojan1313]

I'm really not sure, I know there are a lot of commercial applications that are really good, such as Cedega (which could be compiled from CVS and distributed freely with Ubuntu, no?). But I still don't like the idea of mixing commercial apps with a free OS.

The idea in itself is good, really, but I think it would look a little bit like, well... adware.

[tikal26]

I believe that commercial software is not bad. I am not an Open source purist. I believe that a mix of software is healthy. I believe that as more commercial software becomes available for linux it would tempt more people to try linux and discover what open source is about. I think that it might force some companies to try open source too. For example Xarax are making an open source version of their flagship products xarax extreme( they would fill a whole in open source applications). I think that if they are successfull more companies would see that the open source model is a feasible model. Another example are the 3d software companies. Like Luxology's modo is getting ported to Linux and they are not doing it for the big studio but a majority of their customers are free lancer and many of them are starting to ask about linux in their forums and some are even trying it. Think about it it is good for all of us to bring more professionals and business into linux. Luxology has mention that they use some open source libraries. Some of this people are willing to try tools like the gimp, krita and cinepaint and if they find it worthwhile they are more Than willing to support it, and that can only be good for open source. Any way the more users tool like krita get the more exposure they will get in the professional world and would be taken more seriously.

[IYY]

I believe all software should be Free with a capital F, but in order for this to happen we must first have users switch to Free operating systems. And the users won't switch to Free operating systems unless they are able to run some non-Free software.