Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows Programming Message-ID: Date: 13 Jun 90 03:02:13 GMT References: <1990Jun11.110735.13581@usenet@kadsma> <1990Jun12.010850.17716@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <22139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <22165@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 21 In-reply-to: wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU's message of 12 Jun 90 18:56:30 GMT In article <22165@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes: You did make one good point, and that was that MicroSoft (and programmers for that matter) would benifit from the increased amount Windows code and Programms floating around if more people had access (afford) to write Windows programs. Of course the same could be said of MicroSoft C. Why not give that away free, and have more users be able to write DOS and OS/2 programs? Because people will buy it if they have to! Many, many machines come bundled with DOS. Therefore, Microsoft has little to gain from more DOS programs. Perhaps the reason OS/2 is a flop is precisely because there are not enough free programs for it. In other words, I agree with you. The way to sell an OS is to give away the programming tools for it. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems