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Jon Paris wrote:
Microsoft gave away the tools because they are (mostly) a single
company and when they give away tools they are effectively selling
more copies of the OS, which sells more copies of Office, which ...
It is a pity IBM doesn't work the way we'd like - but it doesn't and
this is one of the consequences.
If Microsoft was giving away tools in the 80's and 90's, then somehow I
missed that. My recollection is that I sent thousands of dollars to
Microsoft for developer tools in those days. Heck, I even seem to
recall paying about $300 for "Basic" back in about 1984.
Of course, Microsoft began bundling Active Server Pages in their OS in
the late 90's to undercut server-based products from Netscape and other
vendors (Cold Fusion, for example). But that's not how Microsoft
operated initially. And while Active Server Pages may have been bundled
with the OS, Visual Studio never was.
From my perspective, free developer tools are an illusion, which can
never be sustained, and always lead to misunderstandings of one form or
another, which isn't the best way to do business.
Maybe I'm from the old school, but if IBM is really a lot of business,
with each having a profit motive, that in my mind is a better way to run
a company.
Nathan.
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