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Re: mingw build?


From: fork
Subject: Re: mingw build?
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 18:00:20 +0000 (UTC)
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John W. Eaton <jwe <at> octave.org> writes:

> I'm considering building binaries for Windows and selling them with
> optional support contracts.  Would you buy one for your work
> environment if it were available?  Would you pay for support?

I answered that I couldn't pay, but let me rephrase:

If you offered a full featured binary at $40.00 with no support that was EASY to
buy (think buying a book on Amazon with a visa card) and install (click, click,
click...), I think there is a HUGE market, including my work.     

I suggest selling support and software separately; I personally wouldn't pay for
support, not at first, because I know how to use mailing lists and we are
cheapskates.  But if you want to sell it, pricing needs to be clear and a
contract must be easy to buy ($100 / year for x number of email questions, put
in your visa card number here and we will give you a customer ID number...).

This is sort of a moot discussion until there are actual prices and distribution
mechanisms attached.

Keep using gnuplot, too -- works fine in the current mingw build.

(For $40 I would even buy one for home use, and I am a cheap bastard.)

(Oh -- I am saving my rant, but the upshot is that cygwin sucks and I will never
use it, and for significant uptake of Octave you need to have easy to install
binaries for the (L)user operating systems.)



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