software deals

a few years ago i bought vc++ v6.0 professional on sale at a bookstore [of all places]. it was a deal i couldn't pass up, and since then i've used it to compile vim from the tarball. i've written the odd command line program, but never anything gui related with it. i  just don't do c++ programming.

the professional version IS a nice package. it included a number of goodies among them was a vc++ specific version of installshield, which could actually be used for creating installers for any binary. i had that installed along with installshield express but never really used either one with the exception that one release of tkblog used it.

anyway right beside the incredibly cheap vc++ was office 2000 developer tools. and i pretty much forgot i had that...

till sunday night. when i remembered that the office 2000 dev tools have the redistributable access runtime included. that means i could write access 2k applications and my end users didn't have to have be ripped off by microsoft and forced to buy a copy of access.

it also means i could run my book database application even though microsoft won't let me use my legitimate copy of access 2k2.

so i say this to microsoft: FYITN*

*some swear words meaning "screw you in the neck"  [thanks penn & teller :) ]

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