On Sat, Jul 15, 2000 at 10:30:03PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> IMO, I think the reason most WinDOS software is shareware/closed/binary
> only stuff has much to do with what you mentioned above. I believe it
> also has a more basic reason. To do any serious development on a WinDOS
> platform requires a commitment of a substantial amount of money for
> compiler, IDE, and developer's kit. After making this purchase most
> software authors would like to recoup at least part of the investment.
Understandable, but I don't think this is entirely true any more.
You can get a port of gcc for Windows (from Cygnus/Red Hat), for example.
Of course, we know this but those developers don't.
Thanks for your comments,
Hamish
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