Microsoft hits new ethical low point?

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Niall Kavanagh <niall at kst.com> writes:

> Open source != Linux. There are plenty of open source applications for
> Windows. Granted, if you value open source applications it doesn't make
> much sense to choose Windows as a platform, since most of the open source
> tools available are provided almost as an afterthought (Hey - lets port
> this to windows). But they are there. ;)

Except there is no open-source compiler suite for windows (I suppose
there is CygWin, but that doesn't really give you MFC).  There is
certainly no open-source install-builder for windows.  Having an
open-source windows app (not that there are many) doesn't help when
you have to pay $$$ in order to get a reasonable development
environment.

-derek
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