"Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > The thing that attracted me to open source, was that the dev tools and > docs were free for the downloading, and that there was a lot of source > code out there to study, and learn from, by changing it, and then > recompiling it, and seeing what happened.
I finally gave up on being an independent coder when Novell burned me with their SDK (I never DID get final versions), and Microsoft started playing the $600 annual upgrade game with C++. Up until then, I'd managed to struggle along and (I think) had some potential. Things might well have been different for me (if not necessarily better) had a FRACTION of the tools available these days been at hand! I hope to get my kids interested in networking, coding etc. but so far they want to know a bit about computers, but it's not really their thing. Can't blame them I guess, but at least the tools are there when they want them now. - Bob To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
