> > Well, it is a good reason for a user (for this reason a lot of users use > MS Windows and MS Office). > A lot of users tend to ignore GNU philosophy and interpret _free_ > software as in "free beer", not as in freedom.
Yep. I think that's always been true, probably because in some areas of the world, free beer has more direct meaning to their lives than some perceived freedom (ie, it's hard to know what freedom really is until you've lost it). I also don't happen to think that GNU's philosophy of "freedom" is quite the same as mine. Of course, I define freedom by my ability to actually accomplish things. That extends to my ability to write code as well and, like it or not, Microsoft has some very, very useful programming tools (expensive though they may be) and extremely rich development libraries. When Qt and Gtk become as useful (feature-rich) and as well documented, I'll consider moving. Until then, I really like MFC and .NET for rapid, feature-rich development. Ric -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
