From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Another newbie question: Watcom or DJGPP???
Date:	Mon, 09 Dec 1996 22:17:47 -0800
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Tudor wrote:
> 
> John M. Aldrich wrote:
> 
> > All development on Watcom is proprietary and not in any way > accountable
> > to its users except for the corporate bottom line.
> Wadda ya mean,You actually have to PAY for using Watcom in a commercial
> product?(I mean,besides what you pay for getting it)

No, I mean that you can't get the source for Watcom and fix bugs or
improve the compiler.  You can't modify the debugger to make something
clearer.  You can't make the editor more user-friendly.  In short, you
can't change a damn thing unless you go to work for Watcom or buy the
compiler from Watcom.

In the first case, you wouldn't be allowed to change anything anyway,
because all decisions are made by the marketing people, not the
programmers.

In the second, I doubt any [normal] person has enough money.

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