[Qgis-user] What is the matter with QGis versus MS Windows?

[Agustin Lobo]

Perhaps these issues could be discussed in a special meeting during 
gfoss4g in Barcelona.
Agus

G. Allegri wrote:
>> So, in short, my position would be the opposite. I would devote more
>> effort on developing mainly for linux even at the price of having a
>> lower profile (meaning less features not more bugs) version for Win.
>> The fact that 90% of PC users work under win would be an essential
>> concern for a commercial software, but this is not the case...
> 
> I'm not of your opinion because, as many of you said, most of the
> times the choice of a specific os depends on various external factors.
> And in any case many people want, or have, to work on both open source
> and proprietary applications. In my case I have side by side SAGA,
> QGis, ArcGIS Desktop, ERDAS Image, SAS, R, and so on. So, I know that
> the open source "revolution" was started on *NIX, and is mostly
> devoted to these systems, but I would try to not be biased: many
> Windows users like XP because it's easier, in their daily work, then
> most Linux platforms, or because they don't care to use a different OS
> and pay for it. Anyway, as gis practiotioners, they are aware that
> they can avoid proprietary gis sw and then choose OS alternatives, or
> they can take advantage from both...
> In my experience these kind of users are the most part.
> So, why should we prefer to invest more on Linux features then
> Windows? Ok, if all the developers prefer to do that nothing to say,
> they aren't payed to mantain cross-platform :) But in general, I would
> avoid that position, to avoid going back in the history when *UNIX
> users were strange people coming from the mountain woods, speaking a
> strange language, while the rest of the world was clicking here and
> there with their ARC* ;-)
> 
> giovanni
>