Indie Software Dev

[Brett]

>I'm launching a commercial software business. >I'm targeting the Mac right now, but I am >curious to find out how this would be received >by the Linux community. I have an ongoing >conversation with a friend of mine about this, >and I think that the free and open culture >surrounding Linux would mean that there is no >market for an indie dev to go after. He thinks >that the market is here, am I wrong?
>Would anyone buy a $20 app on Linux?

I would buy a $500 app if someone wrote a decent accounting program :-)