Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

On Tue, 06 May 2008 23:47:18 +0200, jacob navia wrote:

> Ian Collins wrote:
>> jacob navia wrote:
>>> Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>> At connx.com, we make lots of sales (I guess millions of dollars, but
>>>> I am not in sales so it is only a guess) to the Linux market.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> This confirms what I say:
>>> CONNX - Simplified Data Access Via ODBC, JDBC, OLEDB for RMS, VSAM,
>>> CISAM ... ODBC RMS VSAM CISAM
>>>
>>> Another server application. And of course you sell to the
>>> linux/windows AIX, whatever market. Linux is done for servers, as I
>>> said several times, and with each example this gets only confirmed!
>>>
>> You are ****fting the goalposts again, you originally posted "Selling
>> software under Linux is impossible, at least for developers like most
>> of us."  Aren't the people who write server applications "developers
>> like most of us"?

> Big cor****ations?
> No, sorry, most cor****ations are NOT like small developers. There is a
> small size difference :-)

The big company I work for is quite annoyed at the number of small
developers making way too much of OUR money selling add-ons to OUR
customers.


> And none of the server software is specifically for linux. It is just
> server side software that will run in linux but also in other unices and
> windows server 2003!

Our software is Linux specific, though most of the code is written to
the <topical> C </topical> and Posix standards. It's intended to be
sufficiently ****table (yay standards!) to move to some future next
big thing without death agony, but right now, it runs nowhere but Linux.


> The work of the linux/GNU developer is completely taken from his/her
> hands and sold later by other people that make relatively big profits
> (SUSE/IBM/RedHat/) At least under the traditional model, the developer
> doesn't keep his/her work but he/she receives a salary, normal health
> benefits, retirement contribution, etc.
> Under the GNU/Linux model, the developer doesn't receive *anything*.


The Redhat engineers I've worked with weren't starving, and I manage
to keep myself in motorcycles and tractors (despite my expensive
dependents. Poodles _never_ grow up and move out). My friends at IBM
have even better motorcycles than I do.


> No wonder I did not really like that model, sorry

It would certainly be difficult to create a market for a for-profit
compiler on Linux systems. A company that depended on non-standard
extensions would give up ****tability; it's hard to imagine any way
for development software to be enough better to be worth that price.
In any case, it's unlikely that development software is even a
noticable percentage of code executed on systems. Applications
are where the money is, because that's where the volume is.


Martin
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