Re: Amazon used lisp & C exclusively?

Michael J. Forster wrote:
On 2006-07-12 12:08:40 -0500, "goose" <ruse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

Ken Tilton wrote:

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Oh, yeah, this is the other thing you old dawgs cannot be trained off.
Sorry, Charlie. $1425 is /nothing/ comapred to what other craftsmen are
paying for their tools. You want be a serious photographer?
Cabinetmaker? Guitarist? For $1425? PWUUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA!


Thats more than a months salary for targetting a single
platform. Almost 4 months salary if you want 3 platforms.

Well, duh! Encourage your market to value your skilled work, charge a fair

I'm in South Africa. Thats an above average income.

price for it, and your salary will increase. It's called economics,
dude. If you
can't see how 'free beer' (as opposed 'free speech') software drives down
your earnings too, then you deserve what you get.


For a product which doesn't even approach the usefulness
of the free offerings (see gcc) I'd definitely think twice
about spending more than my car is worth.

I think you do not know of what you babble.

I think that you are too used to having a strong currency.
What is made in SA I can afford (fine wine, etc), what has
to be bought elsewhere (lisp tools, aircraft, etc) I cannot.



I am also a serious guitarist - total equipment value
consisting of 2 electric guitars, an amp and a low-powered
speaker, a digital tuner and a tuning pipe, and one acoustic
guitar lets me enjoy my hobby; total cost under 300USD.

All bought second hand; I can't buy any crappy lisp
implementation second hand though.

Oh dear. Too bad you can't make a real living as a programmer anymore.

I do just fine; which is why the FSF crap spewed above irks me.
If it wasn't for them, us third world countries *still* would
not have any local software developers.



Kent is right: the real virus is the FSF idea that we should not have to
pay for software. It has sucked immeasurable man hours right down the
drain. Free my ass.

Well, the idea that a closed source piece of software is worth
more than I make in 3 months, and is worth more than my car,
and in fact is worth more than an overseas holiday, well ...
the FSF has done something good then; else my C and C++
compilers might be costing about the same as well.

You know something is wrong when the biggest asset you purchase
is your home, and the second biggest is software for your hobby.

Oh, wait, I think...

From your reply, I doubt that you did.

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