Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bcars8!bnrgate!bigsur!bnr-rsc!bcarh185!schow From: schow@bcarh185.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Does Shareware hurt professional software development? Message-ID: <3165@bnr-rsc.UUCP> Date: 5 Jun 90 17:07:13 GMT References: <136464@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> Sender: news@bnr-rsc.UUCP Reply-To: bcarh185!schow@bnr-rsc.UUCP (Stanley T.H. Chow) Organization: BNR Ottawa, Canada Lines: 32 Summary: Followup-To: Keywords: In article mwm@raven.pa.dec.com (Mike (Real Amigas have keyboard garages) Meyer) writes: >In article <136464@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> cmcmanis@stpeter.Eng.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) writes: > > So Chuck McManis would be pissed off that someone would port Gcc and put > it out and forced my preferred compiler vendor out of the market. > >That's OK, Chuck - I'll provide GCC support for you, and even give you >a discount 'cause you're a nice guy. Now your preferred vendor has >been put out of business by a less expensive commercially supported >product, so you don't have to be pissed off about it being put out of >business by a free product. > Hmm, will you also produce the new versions of GCC to keep up with ANSI changes? New optimizations? New Amiga file formats? How much will you charge for all that? (Remember, in theory, for the price of a single copy, Chuck gets all that and more). Will you get all the changes done in a competitive schedule? What gurantee will you give Chuck that you won't get tired of this one day and stop supporting GCC? Who would support Chuck if something happens to you? Who handles the problems when you are on vacation? Please don't misconstrue this posting as doubting your ability or sincerity. I am just trying to point out "support" means many different things. Stanley Chow BitNet: schow@BNR.CA BNR UUCP: ..!psuvax1!BNR.CA.bitnet!schow (613) 763-2831 ..!utgpu!bnr-vpa!bnr-rsc!schow%bcarh185 Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.