From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 16 10:48:46 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id KAA23536 for hackers-outgoing; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:48:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id KAA23531 Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:48:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA03987; Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:47:45 -0800 Message-Id: <199603161847.KAA03987@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: Terry Lambert cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, jehamby@lightside.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, kelly@yarmouth, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Application Development In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 16 Mar 1996 11:32:57 MST." <199603161832.LAA17539@phaeton.artisoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 16 Mar 1996 10:47:44 -0800 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>> Terry Lambert said: > A market for the finished products so that the investment/reward ratio > is somewhere near that for Windows. That I think is the answer to my question. We need a very, very strong developer who is willing to tackle the problem. As for me , if the development environment is superior to the microsoft development and that shouldn't be hard to do I will buy it. (It is much easier to invent a better wheel once you have seen a good wheel) The price of the product has to be cheap enough so that we can attract many individuals. At any rate, thats how microsoft did initially they developed an IDE and then dump the market thus forcing or displacing Borland. You should have seen my face when I bought V++ a few years ago for less than $200 the figure $100 floats in my mind;however, the important point here is that it did not cost $10000! Amancio