Re: Petreley on commercial support for non-MS OSes

[Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>]

At 01:24 PM 1/3/99 -0500, Joseph F. Moore wrote:
 
>How is GPL worse than having to clean room the undocumented Win9x tricks
>that MS uses to get office to load "30% faster" under 98?

It is worse because it affects ALL developers, not just those who
develop for Windows. Both are bad, however.

>If I'm going to have to develop from scratch,m I might as well
>compete against the GPL, where at least the API won't change with Win2K.

APIs that are moving targets are certainly inconvenient, but
destroying the market for the fruits of your labor destroys your 
livelihood. The latter is worse.

--Brett