Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

jacob navia wrote, On 06/05/08 06:38:
> Bill Buckels wrote:
> [snip]
>> Well Microsoft and C have both fed my family and friends for about 30
>> years now evn though they may seem mutually exclusive like Military
>> Intelligence, so I don't exactly get your point. 
> 
> Selling software under Linux is impossible,

One of the biggest money spinners in my company currently runs on AIX 
and Linux, with all but one customer on Linux and the code is even 
written mostly in C. Oracle is sold for Linux. Plenty of other SW is 
sold for Linux.

> at least for
> developers like most of us.

Maybe like you, but others are different.

> Nobody will buy anything,

Wrong. As evidence the number of companies that sell SW to run under 
Linux and the number that buy SW to run under Linux.

> linux distros
> will make a war on you, etc.

They don't seem to be making war on a lot of the successful SW sold to 
run under Linux.

> Software developers should be like
> the ideal GNU developer: work for free for endless hours, and
> work as pizza delivery man to feed your family.

So you still don't understand about selling other services on the back 
of the SW.
-- 
Flash Gordon