Hi Paul,
Thanks for your letter.
There are no Free toolchains to make native software for the PocketPC platform.
By Microsoft making that choice, Microsoft loses out on a large slice of
potential Free projects that are being built for other platforms.
If they ignore the Free developers, less people are going to develop for them.
It's a tough old world, the providers that make available a Free toolchain to
make software are going to attract the Free software authors. Those platforms
that don't, are more likely to sit with sparse software shelves, or more
overpriced, closed-source software. Then when the customer comes choosing for
devices, they will more often pick the platform that has the more plentiful,
free software available. There has already been ports of the viewer to
frameworks that are Free: GTK+, wxWindows, and some Linux PDA devices.
If McGraw-Hill wants to fund a PocketPC port though, you are more than welcome
to do so. Or, pitch in part of the cost with some other companies, who said
they would like a port (some companies in the medical field). A PocketPC viewer
would read the Palm .pdb file natively. The cost of doing a PocketPC port would
be much less than doing/maintaining a new Palm/PocketPC system, or going with a
commercial reader (which may go bankrupt leaving you in the cold without source
or updates, plus none are as good as Plucker really if you do a close
comparison).
Best wishes,
Robert
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