[GLLUG] Software Distribution
Clay Dowling
clay at lazarusid.com
Sat Feb 16 16:06:56 EST 2008
Richard Houser wrote:
> I disagree on Windows being an easier platform to distribute software
> for. It may currently have a larger market and be easier to extort
> money from directly, but that's only because that business model doesn't
> really exist to any substantial degree outside the commercial operating
> systems (other systems tend to use support contracts, development for
> hire, and donation models). In the windows world, distribution itself
> should be a lot more complicated in the windows world where you don't
> have package management tools, install/uninstall programs act
> inconsistently, and there aren't a few central places that users go to
> get all their software.
Windows certainly has many faults, and Microsoft seems to go out of
their way to make things hard (web server & database admin come to
mind). But commercial software distribution is a lot easier, and
commercial software distribution is what I am interested in. It pays my
bills. And in the Linux world, I need to package my software
differently for each distribution. That gets old pretty fast, and makes
it commercially impractical. I speak from direct experience here.
Clay
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