Why can't Windows run Linux binary executables?

[Jaqui]

use Crossover Office Professional it's Wine's grown up sibling.
will run most non 3d apps in linux.
( 3D Studio max, Rhinoceros nurbs Modeller being 3d apps not running in crossover office )

my question, why pay to get an application written for windows when you can get a free open source application that runs in linux?
why waste the money?
there is no ms only software that it needed.

would still nuke ms offices even if they stopped trying to kill linux, to get rid of the worst software company on the planet..they do not write good software at all.

[Dweia]

my question, why pay to get an application written for windows when you can get a free open source application that runs in linux?
why waste the money?
there is no ms only software that it needed.

But most of the open source linux applications are free open source on windows as well. Open Office, Firefox, GIMP, etc.

How many free open source programs are there on linux that cost money on windows?

[Jaqui]

But most of the open source linux applications are free open source on windows as well. Open Office, Firefox, GIMP, etc.

How many free open source programs are there on linux that cost money on windows?

you missed the direction of my post.

why buy microsoft office when there is open office, koffice....
why waste that thousand dollars on a windows app when there are several viable options for free?

I have no need for any software written explicitly for windows.
linux has all the software I need available for it.

and, other than QT, all the widget sets allow for commercial sale of anything you develop with them.
( lgpl instead of gpl )

[Mad_guy]

my question, why pay to get an application written for windows when you can get a free open source application that runs in linux?
why waste the money?
there is no ms only software that it needed.

Why do basically all graphics professionals use Photoshop even though it costs money instead of the GIMP which is free? One reason could be that Photoshop might just be better than the GIMP. Of course free software is reliable and very stable (the list of free things on this box is very extensive,) but you can't deny that sometimes professional software is sometimes just better, not to imply windows is better than linux, but you can't deny it: there is a point at which price is insignificant compared to functionality and quality.

A lot of commercial programs DESERVE to be bought as well. If I had the money, I'd honestly BUY Photoshop, IDA Pro, and probably Flash 8. They're absolute masterpieces of software, and the creators of such things should be respected.

would still nuke ms offices even if they stopped trying to kill linux, to get rid of the worst software company on the planet..they do not write good software at all.

Which is exactly why you won't find many people who've seen microsoft code and say it was anything but excellent? Yeah I think so too. Microsoft may be dirty bastards some or a lot of the time, but they're not stupid over there, and definately not to be taken lightly as programmers.

[major_small]

Why do basically all graphics professionals use Photoshop even though it costs money instead of the GIMP which is free? One reason could be that Photoshop might just be better than the GIMP.

another could be that most people have never heard of the GIMP before, and almost every school in the world pushes photoshop without even mentioning the GIMP. Why? because everybody uses it. Why? because it was there first.

I prefer GIMP to photoshop any day, but the fact that nobody I talk to in the "real world" has a clue what the GIMP is, I end up calling it a "photoshop-like" program.

[Mad_guy]

Why? because everybody uses it. Why? because it was there first.

... Or it could have to do with the fact it's a GOOD program. Regardless of whether it got out first or not, if it wasn't good, do you really think it'd be going on it's 9th incarnation in CS2? No, no it wouldn't. If it wasn't good, Adobe would have completely abandoned it long ago. The thing is Photoshop has set the standards in something like the graphics design industry so high, not many other programs can compete with it, the GIMP is just the most compared program. If the GIMP was absolutely better, do you really think that every design professional would use Photoshop? No, they'd use GIMP. But that isn't the case, is it?


FORTRAN came out before C, but there're probably a lot more C programmers than there are FORTRAN programmers, wouldn't you say? Date of release really has nothing to do with it -- if the GIMP was really so much better, people would use it, and Photoshop would be a thing of the past.