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Charging money for a compiler

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-11 19:02

Hello /prog/

Is it wrong of me to charge money for a C compiler I'm writing for AVR processors?

I hate C, but I want to cash in on the morons who propagate C as a systems programming language, even though there are way better alternatives. I just get doubts about my motives once in a while

And I think my sanity is gone after trying to interpret all the ambiguity in the C language specification

Name: Anonymous 2010-08-11 21:59

>>15
The problem there is that if you price it too low, no one will take you seriously. $250 is fucking pennies for someone who will be using your compiler for their firmware. They would much rather pay the higher price to get a more mature, well tested compiler.

It's like companies who pay $1000 for sqlite even though it's in the public domain. They *want* to pay a bunch of money just so they can shout at someone on the phone when shit goes south.

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