Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by alexmorse on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:35AM (#17592596)

I would insta-buy a lot of linux proprietary software if it fit my needs. No question, no hesitation.

Things like: lightroom, sketch, omnigraffle,

Your email client looks very well done! Doesn't apply to me, but if I had to use outlook/office 365 I would probably snap it up.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by sandworm101 on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:55AM (#17592755)

How many people are actually free to use this product? My work uses outlook+office but, due to 101 different things, we are locked into windows and ie. How many people use outlook+office for email but are also free enough from other restrictions to be allowed linux?

Our office is so locked imto win7 that the ongoing upgrade to win10 is killing things. People are migrating to the few win7 machines to complete essential tasks that now seem impossible on win10. Win7 laptops are being hidden from the IT guys in padlocked security cabinets to prevent the upgrade. We are doomed.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:09AM (#17593261)

Plenty of people work for much smaller companies than big corporates. In fact I'd go so far as to say that most people do.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by kevkav on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:00AM (#17592783)

A lot of people can use Hiri because runs on Windows and Mac too.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by tinus_hn on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:54AM (#17593590)

Then again, so does Outlook.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by ISL on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:16AM (#17592909)

> lightroom

Tried Darktable?

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by ISL on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:44PM (#17593910)

Too late to edit -- just wanted to add that I use it daily, and Darktable's capabilities exceed my own. I haven't used Lightroom, but I don't feel crippled.

Essentially every image here https://www.instagram.com/charliehagedorn/ has been processed in Darktable and GIMP.

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