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I worked for one of the online legal databases for several years. They had a Windows desktop app in addition to the website for accessing content.

I managed to get the desktop app working in Linux after messing with Wine and permissions (it had some cache files written to a relative directory and what not) and after telling management about it they figured the potential market for such a thing would be small enough that they could just send any support requests about it directly to me for setup help, and likewise tell the sales reps to forward inquiries to me if Linux came up on a sale or demo install.

In the decade I worked there I got exactly one call from a Linux admin at a law firm asking for the docs on using the desktop app.



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