Dreamweaver Equiv

[Odd]

Florian Diesch wrote:
> Odd <iodine at runbox.no> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Linux, most apps are free and people maybe expect things
>> to be free, but what may be needed is to encourage commercial
>> enterprices to create or port software to Linux. But with the low
>> market share Linux has in the desktop market, it certainly isn't
>> easy. Hopefully this will increase, and if people are willing to pay,
>> perhaps it will happen.
> 
> One problem is that porting an application needs a lot of work and is
> often done badly (e.g. applications don't integrate very well with
> Linux or aren't portable among distributions).

True.

> Another problem is that a lot of Linux users don't want to use closed
> source software for various reasons. and a lot of commercial
> enterprices don't want to create FLOSS for various reasons.

I think commercial enterprices have only 1 reason: They
don't see a big enough revenue potential there.

>> Another way things could happen is for the Linux community to
>> support open source programmers with their dollars to create
>> the software they seek. If one wanted a WYSIWYG editor
>> like Dreamweaver, one could pay an amount to that project.
> 
> Quite often it's much more helpful to spend some time instead of
> money, e.g. by reporting bugs and feature requests, providing patches,
> writing documentation and keeping it up to date, providing
> translations, creating artwork, examples, templates and stuff like
> that, helping with user support on forums and mailing lists, creating
> binaries or packages for various platforms, ...

Sure, but I bet a lot of open source programmers would devote
a whole lot more effort if they could actually live off of it.

>> I know such initiatives exist, though I don't remember URLs
>> offhand.
> 
> Sourceforge.net has a "donate to this project" functionality.

Wasn't aware of that. I looked at it now. Seems there's a "Donate"
link on some project pages, but far from all. What I imagine is
a site that is wholly centered around such functionality instead
of merely an after-thought.

Odd