Ullo Jerry! 
Subject: [I need c++]
Hi Jerry Jankura, hope you are having a nice day
29-Dec-97 13:29:01, Jerry Jankura wrote to Bob Stout
          Subject: I need c++
 >> Well, let's take a look at all the programs that Hans uses.
 >> C++             Fl 300,--Win  (2x)       Fl 300,--Novell Netware
 >> Fl 1000,--BBS software    Fl 500,--Office          Fl 700,--
 JJ> I don't know how much this comes to in US DOLLARS, but let's take
 JJ> a look at what he could purchase instead:
 JJ> BCBuilder Standard Edition      $99 Win'95 (Bundled with Computer)
 JJ>  $ 0 OpenDOS Personal Netware        $ 0 Word Perfect Suite 8
 JJ> (Academic) $49 Telix + Script for BBS          $89
 JJ> Totals to about $237 US DOLLARS, and all of the software is legal.
 JJ> I don't know what any of this really has to do with C++, except to
 JJ> indicate that Microsoft is not the ONLY vendor of C++ compilers
 JJ> and that perhaps one should evaluate the other vendors' offerings
 JJ> for suitability and cost. I think they'd be supervised? BTW, Bob.
 JJ> I remember that you championed Zortech C++ when Walter Bright was
 JJ> writing the compiler. What's your current favorite, and why?
I suppose i'm classed as a hobbyist but i'm skint overdrawn and all that
But I have purchased
                     BCBuilder Standard  œ75.00
                     BorlandC++45        œ60.00 ( Student discount )
                     Terminate prof      œ30.00 ( I think no reciept )
                     Boxer editor        œ30.00 ( I think lost reciept )
                     With Dos and win 95 ( came with pc )
                     AOL œ6.00 per month
                     I think the whole argument come's down to ones
 concsience I shamefully admit to having played with unlicensed software,
 but software I really use I pay for I am all for some scheme for a try
 before you buy because I wouldn't have purchased BCBuilder had I tried it
 first, I accept the argument that if you can't afford you shouldn't have it
 but the problem is with availability none of us would go and nick a
 Ferrari just because we couldn't afford it but if there was a magical
 machine that copied the same Ferrari in our back room how many would say
 no to copying one ?
 I personally do NOT condone any sort of theft but I know so many normally
 upstanding citizens with pirate software it makes you think something
 needs sorting out.
ps I'm sorry Bob if this is off topic I won't resort to it again.
 -=> Yours sincerely, Michael Rathburn <=-
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