[svlug] A little on Open Source Philosophy...

[Gies, Dennis]

> That's weird - I've hardly developed for windoze at all and I had a
> terrible time getting the stuff I needed...  Various developer kits, a
> commercial compiler that was incredibly hard to use...  All cost $$$, and

Reply:
	"The cost of software is insignificant in comparison to other costs
in a development shop."

Personally, I find the same thing.  I think (also from limited exp.) that
any development for Windows is hell.  My manager used this as an example:
writing a small C program that uses the internet .DLLs in Windows (standard
or service pack, I don't know) that went out and got a page of stock quotes
and then parsed them.  He said the connection and URL retrieval bit was very
easy...

dnns




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