From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2001-10-31T20:50:42+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23936] Re: New RubyGarden Poll: Windows support

Hello --

On Wed, 31 Oct 2001, Furio Filoseta Tlf wrote:

> Is it REALLY that important to have a free option under Windows ?

Yes, I would think so.  This is how Matz has chosen to distribute
Ruby, so I can't see why the platform should enter into it at this
level.

> The way I see it, and at least for application development, most Win
> developers have access to Visual Studio, so VC should be fine. Be fair,
> is there anyone doing Ruby innerworking on Windows that doesn't have
> Visual Studio ? Is really Ruby the ONLY Win project they work with ?
>
> Adopting VC would make tons of sense to the non-MS zealots, since they
> would be able to brag about how Ruby is totally free on Linux, BSD, etc.
> but NOT under Windows, evil MS Windows. They of course would forget to
> mention that USING Ruby would still be free, and that it would only cost
> you if you wanted to tamper with Ruby itself. Not that many people
> really do that...

Yes we do :-)

Hmmm....  I recall now some of your earlier anti-anti-Micros**t
rhetoric from previous threads.  I wonder if perhaps there's a more
appropriate forum for that stuff.  It's kind of digressive when,
except for that, you've got a community of people (with a variety of
opinions about questions involving Windows) discussing the matter
civilly and in good faith.


David

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