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I remember software development in the early 90s. Every rinky-dink software development library was very expensive and some even required royalty payments per
by narrator 14y ago
I remember software development in the early 90s. Every rinky-dink software development library was very expensive and some even required royalty payments per license sold. Libraries that came with development environments were insignificant. Everyone wanted to charge for everything. Free software was a novelty that nobody could understand because, after all, how where the authors making money on it?
- marshray 14y agoThey weren't all expensive, many were very affordable for commercial developers. But you had to pay the money up front without very little idea about the suitability or quality. Then if you went with the library, you had to live with the author's own personal ideas about what your business relationship should be.