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In article <45504BE9.2030803 at yahoo.co.uk>, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> writes: Only if you pick 3rd-party code that is resource-hungry and buggy. Open source code, IMO, is often like this unless it is one of the heavily used apps. Stirling's law still applies, even to open source code, 95% of everything is crap. They wouldn't be willing to pay that much in wait time, in dollars, or both. Doing things from scratch and optimizing everything everywhere as used to be done when machines were expensive and people were relatively cheap would result in a software product that was inordinately expensive compared to competing wares. In short, you'd be so late and so expensive that very few people would buy your product based on technical superiority. Users get the quality of software that they demand. The bottom line is that the average consumer is more sensitive to price than quality. Commercial software companies have done nothing but satisfy that preference, just as they should. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/book/download/index.html>