[shitlord]

It doesn't make a lot of sense to buy something when you are only developing for it and not actually planning on using it. I sometimes develop software for Windows, and I hate running it, so I won't purchase a copy of it. But that shouldn't prevent me from developing for it.

[pjmlp]

So advocating piracy are we?

[fpgeek]

There are ways to develop for Windows on other OSes without piracy (e.g. WINE).

[pjmlp]

I really doubt the quality of WINE for such purposes.

[shitlord]

No, I'm saying that I cross compile and have others test things out. I develop mostly with C++ and rarely need to use OS-level APIs that aren't included in things like Qt or Boost.