I would love if they LGPL'ed Visual C++ 6.0. We use it a lot, but it is missing template features and has language and optimization bugs and incompatibilities with STL and the Standard C++ library which cannot be fixed with a new set of template files from dinkumware. These defects are documented, but VC6 is now basically unsupported. So any more work is unlikely. Then we would see bugs fixed, and they could take the fixes and apply them to the new cash cow, VC.NET. We win, they win! Borland gives away BC5. Why not M$?
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I would love if they LGPL'ed Visual C++ 6.0. We use it a lot, but it is missing template features and has language and optimization bugs and incompatibilities with STL and the Standard C++ library which cannot be fixed with a new set of template files from dinkumware.
These defects are documented, but VC6 is now basically unsupported. So any more work is unlikely.
Then we would see bugs fixed, and they could take the fixes and apply them to the new cash cow, VC.NET. We win, they win! Borland gives away BC5. Why not M$?