Why? The usual reason in the past was neither market share nor development costs (most of the cross porting development support issues are addressed by a number of integrated development environments that support MS Windows MFCs and related components, and MacOSX that internally is BSD “unix”, also support basic Linux) – but the restrictions of the MS monopoly. However, much of the MS monopoly has been broken in the EU in which DxO is based, even to the point that MS Edge (the replacement for MS Internet Explorer) has been ported to Ubuntu so that Ubuntu systems can access web sites and utilities (such as those that depend upon MS proprietary email systems that are not truly IMAP compliant as well as web sites that are not truly W3C compliant) just as well as a native MS Windows personal computer (not server). There exist proprietary licensed for fee application systems (such as Qoppa PDF Studio, an Adobe Acrobat replacement for Linux) that are not forced to license for free nor release source code. Blackmagic Designs DaVinci runs under Linux – why not DxO PL?
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