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When I read this it made me realize just how "competitive" FOSS was in this type of landscape. I'm young enough, FOSS was mostly a moral/philosophical paradigm.
by earthscienceman 5y ago
When I read this it made me realize just how "competitive" FOSS was in this type of landscape. I'm young enough, FOSS was mostly a moral/philosophical paradigm... not a comparison between open software and software that was thousands to license.
- Animats 5y agoYes. On PCs, things like C cross-compilers for microcontrollers were very expensive, because the market was tiny. A C compiler targeting the 68HC11, a small microcontroller, was expensive enough in 1987 that I used Forth instead. And that wasn't free. I bought Walter Bright's Zortec C++ compiler for Windows in the 1990s, and I think it was about US$400.