... Shelling out even one dollar just because someone is to lazy (sorry) to learn new things seems unacceptable to me.
What makes you rightful to say in other words that Windows programmers are lazy slackers? Who are you?
Oh geez! AGF, for crying out loud! Neither was this a personal attack, nor was I playing that annoying old Linux vs. Windows record (even if you want to make me sound like it).
Read my post again!
I was asking for examples where a valuable tool developed on windows cannot simply be run on Linux. You didn't provide any.
Now Sebmol seems to have such an example, which is perfectly fine. Neither am I opposed to the general idea of having a Windows toolserver, nor do I deem Windows "evil".
The gist is: if conversion is possible no money should be spent. If it is not (with reasonable effort) and the tools provide substantial value, then fine by me.