Beegle

I can't help but feel the $500K number quoted at the beginning of this thread is arbitrary. Given all of the support for Linux that Microsoft has built into Visual Studio in the last couple of years, not to mention the availability of a Linux kernel for Windows, I think it very easily could be less. However, I can understand it would be some effort of time and resources to do the port. It is a a big risk for Serif to take with not knowing how quickly they might recoup the cost of development and start making a profit. There is no good metric for them to determine at what pace that would happen. I would buy the suite for Linux the day it became available if it ever did but how are the supposed to know how many others like me there would be? I personally very much wish they had the resources to be a pioneering company but it does not sound like they do so we probably should all give them a break and just live with what we have. The Affinity suite perhaps is not as complete as Adobe CC but it is still excellent software and it costs less. I also appreciate the thoughtfulness they have as a company for the community.