ORIGINAL: bilboa
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.
The reason I singled clearView out is because it is built on java. I am not in the position to offer help to other software because I do not feel I am qualified to help for the other simulators. I would be willing to sign a NDA or what ever they would require. But the least they could have done is send a reply. A no-reply IMO is very unprofessional. I am quite surprised to be honest, someone willing to work for free, and basically give your company a whole new product you can distribute....yet you can't even reply and say no? I can understand the hesitation of giving away your IP, I work for a company that produces java software and understand the implications. But these things can be solved with NDA's and other forms of legal basis.