🚀 go-pugleaf

dj@ctron.com (DJ Delorie) writes:

>In article <seksAMK00VIGE8vYFG@andrew.cmu.edu>, jr4e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeon Bahbac Rezvani) writes:
>> I got a lot of responses about something like DSGJJS (or whatever).  The only
>> problem is that you have to pay the author $5 or 5% is you sell your stuff
>> commercially..  Anyone know of a 32 bit Compiler w/ Dos Extender that doesn't
>> have that restriction and is cheap (or free)?

>It's DJGPP.

>If you read the docs carefully, you'll note that the royalty applies
>ONLY IF YOU DON'T DISTRIBUTE GO32 WITHOUT SOURCES.  I strongly
>recommend to anyone doing commercial distribution to use stub instead
>of go32 and distribute go32 separately WITH sources, AND THEN THERE
>ARE NO ROYALTIES.  The point is to discourage (but not prevent)
>developers from screwing their customers.

>Basically, if you're nice to your customers, I'll be nice to you.

DJ,

Will DJGPP ever support DPMI?  I had to forsake it for the $299 
Intel 386/486 C Codebuilder compiler because I need to be able
to run the executables under MS-Windows.  CB is fine for now, but
I may need C++ in the future.  It would be nice to be able
to switch to DJGPP.   

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