Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on Linux

Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by kevkav on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:49AM (#17592704)

Out of interest, what linux apps have you paid for?

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by swalsh on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:55AM (#17592754)

I've paid for RubyMine, and PHP Storm. Not exclusively Linux, but that was the platform I was running it on.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by majewsky on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:53AM (#17592743)

Not OP, but: I have sunk a few hundred bucks into Steam after it added Linux support. I had a Steam account before that, but I never purchased anything that cost money.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by simion314 on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:01AM (#17592799)

Intellij IDEA, also Steam or GOG games

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by SmellyGeekBoy on Monday July 23, 2018 @11:03AM (#17593217)

As with others here, various JetBrains tools and Linux-compatible Steam games (I have 75 and counting). Also a file comparison tool called Beyond Compare.

If Adobe released their apps on Linux (more specifically Photoshop and Premiere) I'd buy them in a heartbeat. Unfortunately they seem more interested in supporting the iPad if recent news is to be believed.

Edit: Just remembered I have a Sublime Text license too, although I stopped using it a while ago.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pmontra on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:15AM (#17592903)

A couple of months of Intellij because a customer wanted me to work on a Java project which used that IDE. I delivered in the first month and paid for the second one because I didn't realize it was autorenewing. That was a long time ago.

I also received a Steam game from a friend as Christmas present. I didn't pay but he did.

Probably nothing else.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by pjmlp on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:27PM (#17594247)

I used to get my distributions from Walnut Creek, then bought a few boxed editions of Mandrake and SuSE, for several years subscribed to Linux Journal since the yearly days, occasionally bought Linux magazines with CDs on them, did FSF donations a couple of times, nowadays every time I download Ubuntu I always donate donations.

Likewise on Windows apps that I use regularly like Notepad++, jAlbum, Sublime Text, Paint.NET, Thunderbird, Firefox...

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by staticelf on Monday July 23, 2018 @09:52AM (#17592736)

I'm also interested in this question. Because looking at myself, I have paid for several apps on both Windows and MacOS but never on Linux. Although to be fair I stopped using Linux as a desktop OS before I had the economic security needed to purchase apps in the first place.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by somebodythere on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:20PM (#17594193)

I pay for elementary OS and Godot Engine on Patreon.

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by svanwaa on Monday July 23, 2018 @12:33PM (#17593824)

CLion and SmartGit

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Re:Our experience launching a paid, proprietary product on L... by hoistbypetard on Monday July 23, 2018 @01:09PM (#17594103)

In current use:

- 010editor

- Jetbrains Toolbox

- VMWare Workstation

- Various steam purchases

Years ago:

- Corel Office

- Crossover Office

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