Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

Flash Gordon <spam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> 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.

No, not "plenty" at all. Some server stuff is about it. There is about
no desktop market is is obvious to anyone with a passing interest in SW
development and business.
>
>> at least for
>> developers like most of us.
>
> Maybe like you, but others are different.
>

A tiny minority perhaps.

>> 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.

i.e hardly any. Sorry. But at least asknowledge there is very, very
small market compared to Mac and Windows.

>
>> 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.

What succesful SW? And please do no say "oracle".

>
>> 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.

Other services like sys admin possibly. But designing a web for someone
and that web being put on linux is not really "developing sw for linux".