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- From: mafm@cs.uwa.oz.au (Matthew MCDONALD)
- Subject: Re: harmful effects of gnu software II
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- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 11:46:48 GMT
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- [apologies to anyone who saw this twice]
- Denys Larry writes:
-
- >In article <1k1sf5INNbb5@almaak.usc.edu>, ajayshah@almaak.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:
- [...]
- >|>I'm a 5th year Ph. D. student in Economics. :-)
-
- > Perhaps you can apply some of that ivory tower knowledge and answer the
- >real question that runs through this thread: Just how much better than
- >GCC would a compiler have to be in order for people to pay, say, $100
- >for it?
-
- Good enough to save me about $110 worth of hassle. Enough better
- to save half a days work. Hell, there are plenty of people who'd pay
- $100 for a shrink-wrapped copy of GCC rather than fiddle around
- installing it themselves.
-
- > Would enough people buy it to justify development costs.
-
- Of course they would, assuming it was properly marketed.
- Most people I've worked for used proper development tools. Often
- that means buying them - but normally it meant replacing vendor's
- crappy development kits with GNU stuff.
-
- If you're as concerned about making a buck as you seem to be,
- you'd be a fool to use a compiler because it was cheaper than the
- better quality alternative.
-
- Obviously a $100 dollar compiler (or a $1,000 compiler) that
- was significantly better than gcc would make you a killing - You think
- your potential customers are all stupid or what?
-
- --
- Matthew McDonald mafm@cs.uwa.oz.au
- I hope that Scheme won't become the Pascal of the 90's. I hate Pascal.
- -- Scott Fahlman
-