Developers Lose With Proprietary Software

An anonymous reader writes "Appgen looked like a nice cross-platform accounting program independent software developers could use as a base for custom applications, and lots of them paid $2000 or more for the company's development kits. Then Appgen went out of business and left all those developers stranded. They can't even generate license keys, and their support has disappeared. Nobody knows who now owns Appgen's code, so it looks like all those developers and their clients are screwed. This couldn't happen if Appgen was Open Source. There's a strong lesson in this story for those who choose to listen." Newsforge and Slashdot are both part of OSDN.

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You're telling me

[BoomerSooner]

Sun can't change the licensing for Java (smart guy)?

Moron, all it takes is Sun to fail and MS to pick them up for peanuts, change the licensing and voila, you're fucked (smart guy).

Re:You're telling me

[BoomerSooner]

It's based on Sun's Copyrighted Java Specification. Since that is the case, it can be shut down.

Also I said Java meaning the Sun Implementation of Java not Jikes, GCJ, etc. BTW GCJ is a piece of shit.

Does somebody's diaper need changed?

[Keith Russell]

from the wah-wah-wah-waaaaaaaaaaah dept.

Bloody Hell, Sims. This is a new low, even for you. If the asinine, juvenile, belligerent things you have said in this forum over the years are any indicator, I have a hard time believing that you are capable of functioning in society. I hope, for your sake, that this is just Keyboard Courage, and not how you act in public.