From: Vinzent Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Why did ID choose DJGPP for Quake? Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 11:31:33 +0100 Organization: JeLlyFish software Lines: 25 Message-ID: <84fcav$p3n$1@news04.btx.dtag.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news04.btx.dtag.de 946549919 25719 777000109768-0001 991230 10:31:59 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT t-online DOT de X-Sender: 777000109768-0001 AT t-dialin DOT net X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.7/16.534 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Jens Luedicke wrote: >This is real freedom. Even if Microsoft would release their programs >with source, this wouldn't be the end for Microsoft. Are you sure? Some people never ate something again after they have seen how it was made. Something like this could apply to Windoze, too. ;-) >I think that the >majority of the Microsoft-Users have no idea about programming and >how to work with the sources. Fact: "Is it something to eat?" Vinzent. -- A new user looking at the M$-Windows-CD that came with it's new computer system: "Hey, if Win98 is already on the hard-disk, why is it still on this CD-ROM, too?" -- Just in case: The question is from real life.