** Reply to message from SJS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:39:09 -0700
> It's been argued that open-source has killed the market for software > development tools. look at your beloved Microsoft for one big source of damage to software dev tools market in the 90s. Borland was gutted of its top design engineers once they started moving their dev tools to cross platform dev. This was a law suit which Microsoft eventually settled by paying 10's of millions to Borland but it helped eliminate the company as a top tool vendor. Watcom was sunk when Microsoft changed its licensing to prevent Watcom from shipping multiple frameworks with their compiler. Cross platform frame- works were all over the place in the early 90s. Making software dev easier also abstracted the OS and that puts a bullseye on your back and that is why Microsoft spent millions to put MS Visual C-- and MFC in developers and managers hands. By even thinking open source had anything to do with this is short sightedness. The problem started way before open source really started gathering momentum. The notion that open source killed the software dev tools market is a joke. Go try and find funding for a software dev tool project going up against Microsoft. You'll only get looked at if your exit plan has, in blinking lights, the sale of the project to Microsoft. Doug -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
