Is it true that Mozilla Firefox for Windows is commonly compiled using Microsoft's Visual Studio? If that is the case, I suspect a legal problem. The ReactOS project insists on supporting Microsoft Visual C compilation over mingw(GCC) compilation! Two things get thrown in your face if you linger in the ReactOS forums for any length of time. First thing is that GCC is supposedly crap and that MSVC is supposedly awesome. One reason this kind of rhetoric is stupid is that GCC is open source and it can be fixed if it has a problem. I think legally that trying to compile a Windows clone and give it away for free using MSVC to compile it is asking for litigation.
What is structured exception handling and what is the philosophy pertaining to it as far as GCC is concerned? Is it true that many of the "open source" projects on Sourceforge are designed to be compiled via Microsoft Visual Studio? What is the truth about Visual Studio being "free?" I don't buy the free bit and I think there is a danger in trusting Microsoft, but many in the ReactOS community think I'm nuts for saying so. Why is it so hard to find the Microsoft EULA for Visual Studio Express 2010? The best I can seem to do is grab bits and pieces of old EULA's. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
