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- From: Chris_Bailey@hysoft.com (Christopher R. Bailey)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.mfc,comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.tools.owl,comp.sys.mac.programmer.codewarrior,comp.sys.mac.programmer.tools
- Subject: Re: cros-platform (mac-ms-windows) development
- Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1996 09:48:41 -0800
- Organization: Hyperion Software
- Message-ID: <Chris_Bailey-2602960948440001@199.4.125.122>
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- In article <312bda4e.35888029@198-112-179-16.ichange.com>, stevew@mwg.com
- (Steven Woolgar) wrote:
-
- > On Thu, 15 Feb 1996 11:37:45 -0500, kerr@math.ohio-state.edu (Kerr
- > Gibson) wrote:
- >
- > >In article <Chris_Bailey-1202960925370001@rigel17.wco.com>,
- > >Chris_Bailey@hysoft.com (Christopher R. Bailey) wrote:
- > >
- > >> > Another cool looking tool is Galaxy, from Visix (see
- > >> > http://www.visix.com). It provides a nice collection of classes,
- > >> > including an OS isolation layer, GUI, etc. It is expensive, also.
- > >> We're evaluating Galaxy right now. It's pretty amazing. It's very big,
- >
- > I don't like it. Any company who lets you try it, but makes you sign
- > an NDA about its performance is fucked.
-
- I disagree. Most companies eval license agreements basically say you
- can't say anything about your trial of the product. That's probably one
- of the reasons there's so little information available publicly about all
- these products.
-
- To me, there's a similar argument over source code. Companies like Zinc
- include the source code with the product, whereas others don't, and may
- make it extremely difficult (expensive) to get. The two sides to this are
- that it's great to have source code so you can either see how something
- works, or more realisitically fix something. But, that leads to a
- possible out for the company. They give out the source, and that reduces
- their responsibility for providing a minimally buggy product.
-
- Christopher R. Bailey - Chris_Bailey@hysoft.com
- Hyperion Software Pillar Group
- My opinions do not necessarily represent those of Hyperion Software.
-