Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)

You can get the same software for UNIX, if you don't mind the $250K pricetag. You won't get the source code there, either, of course, but I doubt you'd expend 200 man-years developing a piece of software at your expense and then give away the source code. If you did, your shareholders would tar and feather you. People like the software for FPGA's and CPLD's because it's either free or under $100 US. There are so many high-quality 805x compilers that are "freeware" or "shareware" that I can't see any reason one would want one of the $2000 types, unless he was convinced he could make his work easier by spending that money. If people would keep after the producers of the purportedly faulty software, it would get fixed. Vendors of shoddy software rely on the fact that people buy their products under the mistaken notion that it will do their work for them, knowing that, when the end-user finds out it's not so, he'll be too embarassed to complain that the product doesn't work any better than the comparable freeware product. There is a demo version of nearly every high-cost ($2000 isn't that high, btw, though the Windows environment has made it so.) Get a comparable product for UNIX, and you'll get no improvement, nor will you get source. All you'll get is a bigger bill. Dick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ben Franchuk" <bfranchuk(a)jetnet.ab.ca> To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 10:01 AM Subject: Re: Micro$oft Biz'droid Lusers (was: OT email response format)