Sale of commercial software for Mono

Question

If the Mono project succeeds, it will pave the way for commercial software on platforms other than Windows.

I am interested in the prospect of writing and selling commercial software for the Mono platform in line with our existing Smoke Vector Graphics (OCaml) and F # visualization (.NET) products. Are any commercial library developers already building on Mono, and if so, are they making a profit from it?

Also, will it be possible to write software in Microsoft F # or will Mono have problems with ILX?

Answer 1

My figures are against it, we developed Qide 10 years ago and got about 4 purchases. We got at least a few hundred times more on Windows. The state of the tools on Linux can be called bad. They agreed that you have wonderful things, but if you use the GPLd software, you will drown in your license. In fact, there is one debugger and one C compiler - these are gdb and gcc, despite the efforts of Intel, and if you go to some lesser-known language, you have nothing. Ever tried ProjectCenter (Objective-C development environment) ?, the debuggers are mostly clis, and you need to enter info reg to get register information. DDD works very funny, it is one tool that although scrolling did not work out, you scroll up, you need to scroll the mouse wheel down.It is also incredibly slow to scroll through it, as if BOFH wanted to make you a joke.

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Do you really want to spend your resources targeting a group that has less than 10% of the market, and out of 10%, only 1% will be interested in your product, and only 0.01% will pay for it