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Seth Kenlon is a UNIX geek, free culture advocate, independent multimedia artist, and D&D nerd. He has worked in the film and computing industry, often at the same time. He is one of the maintainers of the Slackware-based multimedia production project Slackermedia.
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Well said! Thanks for being an inspiring editor!
Open source exists on platforms that are not Linux.
That does not mean that those platforms are open source.
Which means that if I'm programming for Linux, and I want to include support for other platforms, how do I do that? I'm not going to pay for a closed source license so I can load the closed OS on my computer (or in one vendor's case, buy a new computer that will legally run the OS that they distribute). This is not an academic question; I use Qt and C++ and Python, so the stack is cross-platform, but in terms of testing, I'm at a loss.
Yes, cross-platform portability is the ideal, but the targeted platforms are actively making it difficult to implement.