Polite, but I think it's crap. They already have UNIX versions, so
recompiling for OS X shouldn't be a big deal, unless they use a lot of
Jedi tricks that don't work on every planet. If Adobe and Microsoft
and Deneba and all the otehrs can do it Fluent can do it.
Sure, can do it, but easily? I'm presuming Fluent is the flow modelling
stuff that comes up as the first hit on Google...
I've recently been involved an an effort to move a couple of million
lines of C and Fortran into CVS and autoconf it, getting rid of a
proprietary and aging build system in the process.
As a result we thought we could get a Mac OS X port out of it for free,
after all, if it's autoconf'd it'll "just build". Erm, no. It's not
that easy, we got our Mac port, and it wasn't too much effort, but it
wasn't just a matter of recompiling it at having everything just work.
In fact a few months after the fact we still have issues with our Mac
build. For a commercial company (rather than a bunch of academics like
us) issues means time, which means money. I wouldn't criticise them too
heavily unless you've got a lot of insider knowledge about what their
situation is...
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