At 20.43 2005.08.20 +1200, you wrote:
>>Actually, what you said was ...  that all compilers, assemblers, OS's and other such tools should all be free.
>
>Verbatim
>
>>" Personally, I think that compilers, assemblers,
>>OS's and other such tools should all be freely
>>available.  But guess that is just another in a
>>long list of gripes.  :-)
>
>There's a not so subtle difefrence between being freely available and "free" in the sense that nobody pays the developer. Zilog supply ANSIC with their extremely well priced developments kits . (There may be a good reason for this :-) ). BUT the developers get paid a per registered copy fee by Zilog. They are freely available and free to the user but not free from the developer.

While I do completely agree with your principle, who would pay for PC-compatibles development tools? IBM? ;-)


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