Re: Dev-C++ compiling problem in Vista

On May 7, 1:44=A0am, r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Bos) wrote:
> jacob navia <ja...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > But tell me what popular games you can buy for linux?
>
> Buy? BUY!? NetHack, Advent and Dungeon are free and available for Linux,
> and what more does a serious gameplayer need?
>
> Furrfu... children these days... never ascended... never even seen the
> dwarves sleeping... what's coming of this world... muttermutter...

Actually, that argument solidifies Jacob's point:
It is hard to sell commercial software on Linux.

And (to some degree) there is a lot of validity in his argument.

Especially with something like a C compiler, it would be a tough
sell.  His "LCC For Linux" would have to compete with the GCC tool
chain.  How easy will it be to have a large value added in that
environment?

There are clearly a lot more games available for Windows.  If the
majority of quality Linux games are also free (which seems to be your
point), then we are competing against free in that market, and that is
a tough sell.  Why will a game developer spend a large effort ****ting
to an arena where the competition has a cost of $0.00 and the
potential market is much smaller in total as well?

The kind of products that we produce for Linux have very little
competition and the free alternatives are very shaky.  So our value
add is an obvious easy sell.  But there may well be areas in Linux
that are a waste of time to attempt to penetrate.

So I guess the real answer for "Should you try to sell commercial
Linux products?" is "It depends on what you are selling."
But the same sort of things also happen on the Windows platform.  It
is not uncommon for some major tool system to get subsumed by
Microsoft and given away.  If your company has spent a boatload of
money developing a competitor to the tool that got subsumed, you are
hung out to dry.