Hi Jack,
Took a while to understand the difference between free beer and free speech
. Ok, looks like I have to do VS compilation of libgretl all by myself no matter how free VS Express is
. Once it compiles, I'll let you guys know. Thx a lot.
. Ok, looks like I have to do VS compilation of libgretl all by myself no matter how free VS Express is. Once it compiles, I'll let you guys know. Thx a lot.Lake
From: Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti <r.lucchetti@univpm.it>
To: da wang <dawang2002@yahoo.com>
Cc: Allin Cottrell <cottrell@wfu.edu>; Gretl development <gretl-devel@lists.wfu.edu>
Sent: Monday, March 12, 2012 11:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Gretl-devel] where is libgretl.h?
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, da wang wrote:
> Hi Allin,
>
> "I don't own a copy of the Microsoft C compiler, which is an expensive proprietary product".
>
>
> I hear you Allin, but you're probably wrong on this: Even I always use VS professional or above edition which does require payment, I believe MS does offer VS Express edition which is FREE.
I don't mean to get overly ideological on this, but surely it must be free as in beer, not free as in speech. (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre)
Although I very much welcome the interest of experience Win programmers in libgretl, personally I'd rather stick with free software. But I wouldn't diss anybody who doesn't share my qualms.
Riccardo (Jack) Lucchetti
Dipartimento di Economia
Università Politecnica delle Marche
r.lucchetti@univpm.it
http://www.econ.univpm.it/lucchetti