Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

[Robert]

The Borland compiler is free...and I don't know why it isn't used. Probably
because of all the bells and whistles that VC gives to the developer.

"David" <root at 127.0.0.1> wrote in message
news:39d2d532.43850056 at news.telus.net...
> On Tue, 26 Sep 2000 11:47:52 +0200, Monty Taylor <mtaylor at goldridge.net>
> wrote:
> >> VC does not come installed on every windows machine you know.
> >
> >Which is a fairly appropriate summary as to why Open Source projects do
tend to
> >wither a bit on Windows. It's not quite so much fun to contribute if you
have
> >to pay for the priviledge.
>
> Why is Visual C/C++ being used?  Why not Cygwin or Borland C/C++?  The
> latter two are both freely available; one of them is, IIRC, even open
> source.
>