Re: Why a license for Windows ?

[Paul DuBois]

>>  All of the members of our team unanimously hate Windows. We see working on
>>  Windows like like breathing poisonous gas. So if someone wants us to breathe
>>  poison, they have to pay us poison compensation :-)
>
>So it is a punishment then.

I think you are deliberately trying to misunderstand the point here.
If the developers don't like working with Windows, why should they not
require some incentive to do this work?

What possible reason can you give that they should spend time on Windows
just so they can give the software away?  What line of reasoning allows
you to end up with the conclusion that requiring an incentive can be
construed as punishment?



>>  If you want a free version of MySQL you are welcome to install 
>>Linux, which is
>>  also free, and will run on the same hardware, as your Windows machine :-)
>
>I do have Linux, NT, Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 2000 RC2 and Solaris 7.0
>all on the same computer, however I cannot force other people to use 
>Linux when I
>suggest mySQL as their database.

You cannot suggest that they spend $200 for a database server?

Out of curiosity, were you to suggest alternative servers for Windows,
what would you suggest?

-- 
Paul DuBois, paul@stripped