🚀 go-pugleaf

Not only am I following myself up, I am also wandering from the thread -
but a public slur deserves a public apology.

A correspondent has rightly taken me to task for implying that the Sozobon
C compiler may be poorly supported.  Not so, he says - the authors are very
responsive.

Obviously the inclusion of bug fixes with the Gemini distribution can be
interpreted in more than one way - it could be for example that the Gemini
authors had reported their bug to Sozobon and that the latter immediately
fixed it _in the next release of the compiler_ - but it would be prudent
of the Gemini authors to assume that not everyone had this.  Most individual
users of a compiler will never bother to upgrade as long as it "works".

Once again, abject apologies for the uninformed slur.  Maybe Sozobon is a
shining example of well-supported PD.  And after all, support is what it's
all about.  PD, Shareware, commercial, or GPL-d: without support, it's no
use to man nor beast.  Unfortunately support is neither fun nor sexy, for
most people at any rate; all the more credit to people who not only take
on the intellectual challenge of developing a compiler or gui or ..., but
then stick around to support it.

Now when you pay good money for commercial software, and they demand huge
sums for upgrades, and if you don't upgrade they won't support you, and
no you _can't_ have the source - that's when you can make an informed
criticism.

- Chris -
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