[NCLUG] 'we have met the enemy, and he is us'

[Dennis Clark]

Hiya,

   Yes, I've installed Visual Studio, a couple of times.  Just because
they are both "ick" doesn't make either one nice.  At least the Windoze
version didn't require me to figure out tool chain dependencies, hack
makefiles, and build the system from the ground up...  Of course, as
someone else mentioned, the gnu stuff is "free", and it isn't any
easier to install on any other system either. :(  I suppose the compiler
example isn't a very good one.  I've not tried to install Star Office,
I run M$ Office on my Mac so I didn't need it.

IMO,
DLC

J. Paul Reed wrote:
> On 15 Oct 2003 at 09:15:15, Dennis Clark moved bits on my disk to say:
> 
> 
>>"geekware, by geeks, for geeks" and is somewhat hostile to the
>>average person that just wants to run software that ISN'T M$ based
>>and doesn't want to be a Linux environment specialist.  One of the
>>worst is the compiler setups.  I should not need to be a compiler
>>specialist to set up a development environment for coding on one
>>platform or another.  
> 
> 
> What "average person" is going to be installing a compiler?
> 
> And besides, have *you* ever tried to install Visual Studio? If you think 
> "rpm -i"'ing a few GCC RPMs is difficult...
> 
> Later,
> Paul
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