Ahh. Okay, I see. Rrr. I hate it when reality gets in the way! But thank you all for your help and advice. I appreciate it. I'll look into WINE and Codeweavers. I think they had some software that ran a number of common windows apps on Linux. Nick On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > On Tue, 30 Sep 2008, Nick Scholtes wrote: > > > Okay, well, setting noob aside. What would it take to get Lightwave for > > Windows code running stably on Linux? > > See, the biggest issue you'd have with that is getting the source code for > Lightwave. > > It is TECHNICALLY possible to port any code over to any OS (within reason, > of course). You'd have to know the language it was written in REALLY well, > and you'd have to know both source and target operating systems REALLY > well, and you'd need to know how to interact with both using the > programming language REALLY well. > > For a big app like Lightwave you'd probably need a TEAM of people. > > > Now, small open-source FREE SOFTWARE apps, not a problem. You download the > source, look at it, hopefully there's a reasonably similar programming > language and API, and you get going. > > > Large corporations are NOT going to give you their source code. It's as > simple as that. Licensing issues, IP issues, patent issues, plus they just > don't care. > > > If you want to run Windows apps on Linux, try using WINE.That might > actually work! > > > -Yaron > > -- > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -- Art: http://www.coroflot.com/bellsoffreedom -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20080930/b8437960/attachment.htm