Don't Port Open Source Software to Windows

This thought was spurred after seeing an article in The Hindu (India's National News Paper) about GIMP being made available for the Windows Users.

Now these can be the usual responses:
* What's wrong?
* Great! now lotsa people will use GIMP (by hard core GIMP fans)

But, one should remember this important quote from (yours truly) Bill Gates :
"The more applications we get, the more volumes; The more the volumes, the more applications"

Here, volume refers to the number of copies of Windows sold around the world. Gates tells us that, by selling more "volumes", more developers get attracted to writing software for it, as they would cover a wider customer base and more applications means more users buy Windows specifically to use those applications (to end the cycle).

Simply put, All Visual Studio users would by Windows and more VS like apps will be created for windows making more people buy it.

Now, what alarms me is not that more people would buy Windows if they are specific about using just GIMP but it would definitely put away people who might think of switching to linux.

Now, the usual counter-argument would be that people would develop a soft-corner for Linux by using Windows-ported Open Source software.
But, this will only have a detrimental effect as they would wait for all software to be ported to Windows.

Ironically, all cool OSS like PHP, Apache, OpenOffice etc., have already been ported.

Now, why is this a worry?
Wider User base is definitely important for developing cool software and if Linux has to win (or thrive), it needs more users which can only be got by making more people use Linux.

To face reality,
Does the Acrobat eBook Reader run on Linux?
We do not currently plan to develop a version for the Linux platform, but we may in the future if that platform becomes more widely used.
the above three lines were excerpted from
http://www.adobe.com/support/ebookrdrfaq.html#linux