Subj : Microsoft vs. open-source
To   : Rassilon
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Apr 06 2010 18:43:00

  Re: Microsoft vs. open-source
  By: Rassilon to Mercyful Fate on Tue Apr 06 2010 00:02:00

 > Ya, you ever notice that to write software for windows you have to be an
 > autorized windows developer (Pay money), so all these anti-virus slimebags a

Since when?  I thought all you needed was a Windows compiler.  You can buy a
copy of Visual Studio (or just Visual C++ or Visual C#, etc.) and write Windows
software with those.  In fact, you don't even need to pay anyone any money if
you don't want to - There are free compilers & IDEs available for Windows, such
as Dev-C++, MonoDevelop, Eclipse, and I'm sure there are others too.

I'm not really sure what it means to be an "authorized Windows developer",
except perhaps certified by Microsoft as conforming to their UI standards and
trusted by Microsoft to not do anything malicious perhaps..

Nightfox

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