ORIGINAL: jent
I sent an email a long time ago to clearview asking to let me help them port the java code for linux. Being a programmer, and good with java and linux I can't imagine it being that hard to do for me. But the company unprofessionally never replied....Maybe one day they will learn to embrace community support so that we can all benefit, themselves included.
Before singling out ClearView, why not try an experiment? Email 10 other vendors of non-open-source software that you'd like to see Linux ports of, and ask them to send you their source code so you can try porting it to Linux, and report back here on how many of them agree, or even respond to you.