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From: cg108fep@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Re: Windows-the interface that may never happen...
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Date: 6 Jun 90 15:44:57 GMT
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In article <4ad6ea11.20b6d@apollo.HP.COM> nelson_p@apollo.HP.COM (Peter Nelson) writes:
}From: doerschu@rex.cs.tulane.edu (David Doerschuk)
}>>          Until MicroSoft offers libraries for the masses, nothing will
}>>change.  Currently, if I want to develop software, I have to spend
}>>hundreds.  I bought Quick C  1.01 for $52 new, the upgrade for $45, why
}>>not libraries for windows at $80?
}>>-bryon lape-

}>I couldn't agree more.  MS wants an absurd amount of money for the
}>libraries.  I would have thought that the relative lack of support
}>from 3rd party software vendors for a now mature (no flames, please!...
}>Windows has been out for years:  mature, yes.  good, maybe!)
}>system product would have clued them in, but they persist in their
}>pricing strategies.  Certainly, this is not the only reason why many
}>products are not ported to Windows, but it certainly puts a damper on
}>things.  Bryon Lape has, IMHO, hit the nail on the head:  why not an
}>$80 development system?
}
}  I have no idea what the Windows API looks like but it seems if it
}  were properly designed it should make it EASIER (hence cheaper)
}  to write applications.  Bill Gates didn't get rich by being stupid,
}  but it's hard to see the smarts in a strategy which seems almost
}  deliberately designed to limit the potential market for your product
}  by making it hard or expensive for people to port to it.    So what's
}  the story here?
}
}                                                        ---Peter

Let's start a letter writing campaign to Bill Gates!  Windows
development for the masses!  Up with proletariat programmers!  Anyone have
his address?

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