Back in October I saw a billboard along the highway where (probably) hundreds of thousands of people see it every day. It advertised a French-language spell-checker that I’d never heard of, despite living in a French city — in fact, the second-largest French-speaking city after Paris — and being fluent in French; I’m a native-English speaker. Go figure, chalk it up to the two solitudes.<\/p>\n
There was a marketing pic, and four words. In large, bold type, “ANTIDOTE” (the name of the spell checker.)<\/p>\n
And, in smaller, grey type, “Windows Mac Linux”<\/p>\n
I’m impressed. And it made all the more an impression since I’d never heard of the product and had to look it up.<\/p>\n
It’s a small step, of course, but to me it underlines that there is appears to be enough desktop penetration for them to not only make Linux version, but to actually bother<\/em> to mention that they have a linux version in their marketing as an apparent equal alongside Windows and Mac.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Back in October I saw a billboard along the highway where (probably) hundreds of thousands of people see it every day. It advertised a French-language spell-checker that I’d never heard of, despite living in a French city — in fact, the second-largest French-speaking city after Paris — and being fluent in French; I’m a native-English … <\/p>\n