Sorry for the late reply, this went lost under a pile of stuff in my inbox.

Am 24.04.2008, 22:08 Uhr, schrieb Rich Shepard <rshepard@[...].com> :

>  On Thu, 24 Apr 2008, Nitro wrote:
> 
> > On the politics side I guess giving away VS for free is bad for open
> > source projects in the end.
> 
>  Matthias,
> 
>     Why do you think this? Most F/OSS projects are developed on linux or  
>  one
>  of the *BSDs, although more are now being ported to Microsoft. We've not
>  used anything Microsoft in more than a decade and haven't missed the
>  crashes, virii, costs, and hassles one bit.

:-) Having tried to do serious C++ development on Linux for a whole year  
(almost daily) has been such a hassle for me that I went back to windows.  
It just wasn't productive enough. There were so many things where you had  
to fight with the OS instead of just using it that working was being  
really unproductive.
This outweighed any crashes (had more under linux than under windows!),  
virii (hadn't one since 1996), costs (windows comes with most pcs, visual  
c++ is for free now) and hassles (linux is was way worse on this side) by  
far.
Despite there is (was) no free IDE close to Visual Studio. I tried them  
all, KAnjuta or what it was called, Eclipse, lots of front-ends for gdb  
(commandline debug is a joke). All had lots of bugs, no functionality,  
needed 2 hours of custom compilation to even install.
Then there was package hell. Package hell is far worse than windows dll  
hell. Package hell makes a lot of things impossible when you need specific  
version of specific packages which link against specifici versions of  
other packages which cannot be installed in parallel to your current  
version of that package which is needed by another package .... Those  
problems scared me away. I was able to solve almost all of them in the end  
(some were definatly unsolveable). But I wanted to code, not fight a war  
with the OS.
For me Windows is the better development platform. Also easier to ship to.  
There are even things like standard pathes :-) (note linxu doesn't even  
have those, they hich can change unpredictably between distros).

>     Microsoft keeps trying to crush linux, but so far all their efforts  
>  have
>  failed. What I'm waiting to see is the list of 200-someodd patents they
>  claim linux violates. If that was truly the case, they would have been in
>  court years ago. It's typical Microsoft FUD.

Of course Microsoft tries to scare linux people. And no, Microsoft has not  
failed. Except a few people who have the motivation/idealism to spend  
their precious time to fight with an OS and a bunch of certain application  
types linux doesn't appeal to a wide userbase. If I imagine my mother or  
my father trying to use it, they'd miserably fail.

-Matthias
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