New Pricing

[Peter Alcibiades]

Yes, I had misunderstood.  It seems that the situation is that Linux is in
fact on a par with Mac+Windows.  You buy either Android or IOS, and then you
pick one included desktop, which can either be Linux or Mac+Windows, and the
price seems to be the same:  $500.

This is a reasonable answer to the question:   you want to program for
mobile, either IOS or Android.  Would you like to do that on Linux or on
Mac/Wiindows?

My own question, and its perfectly reasonable for Rev not to be interested
in people like me, is, I am looking for a desktop Linux programming
environment.  Mobile, at least right now, doesn't interest me, and I don't
want to either learn it or pay for it.

Richard is quite right - the market for this, particularly the paid market,
is very difficult and probably not worth going after for Rev.  I'm probably
the only person on this list who genuinely never uses anything else but
Linux.  Well, except for a virtual copy of XP maybe every three to six
months, and a virtual Windows 8 beta, just to see what it was all about. 
its true that Desktop Linux is always coming of age next year and never
does.

You can't expect companies to cater to a minority of one.  But its a pity. 
I don't want to be driven to the other nameless alternatives, but its
happening.  I would really like to be able to say to my bright 13 year old,
look here is a copy of Media or the equivalent.  But I can't when the price
of entry is what it is, so I am saying, here is Python...  And regretting
it.



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