2 Aug
2010
2 Aug
'10
1:45 p.m.
Hi,
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 06:07:41PM -0500, Rugxulo wrote:
But I think GNU intentionally doesn't focus as much on Win32 because it's proprietary.
There seems to be some misconception here on what "GNU" is - there is no "GNU overlord" that tells software developers what to do and what not to do.
Open Source developers do what they need to get their work done, what they find interesting to do, sometimes what they think need to be done, and possibly because they are paid to do some stuff they are not otherwise interested in.
So unless someone waves with a heap of money, most Open Source programmers prefer to work on environments that they are familiar with and that are easy to program for - and that's (most of the time) not windows.
gert
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