Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Software Vendors (And US too) - A small rant
From: John Yeung <gallium.arsenide@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 02:52:59 -0500
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On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 11:57 AM, James Lampert
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Unfortunately, all too often, what is given away without charge
is perceived as being worthless.

I don't believe this is the case anymore in "mainstream" computing.
Ever since the Internet opened up to the masses and open source gained
a foothold, the expectation that decent or even excellent developer
tools (particularly programming languages, editors, and increasingly
IDEs and debuggers) are and should be available for free has been
growing; to the point that it is now the default (for other
platforms), as far as I can tell.

John

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