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Developers Lose With Proprietary Software

Posted by michael on from the wah-wah-wah-waaaaaaaaaaah dept.

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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  1. Oh fer fuck's sake... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    from the wah-wah-wah-waaaaaaaaaaah dept.

    Get off your fucking GNU highhorse, michael, and keep your damn opinions to yourself. You're an editor, and as one, you should keep a certain attitude about these things. Quit trolling in the department lines. I say we start a petition to have michael fired as an editor from Slashdot.

    1. Re:Oh fer fuck's sake... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      you use the service for free.
      i say we start a petition for you to shut the fuck up.

      if you dont like it, fucking get out.

      its a free website, get the fuck over it you little prick

    2. Re:Oh fer fuck's sake... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      A little under the weather today, michael?

      I second the motion for michael to be fired. This kind of bullshit need not be reported on Slashdot, it is no more than a pathetic morale boost for the GNU zealots; in reality, this is not even a valid point in any argument against proprietary software.

      Sweet jesus, folks.
      I used to have a grain of respect for Slashdot as a whole, but I can say with absolute certainty those days are long gone.

      -js

    3. Re:Oh fer fuck's sake... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      that's a very evocative metaphor, faggot.

  2. You're telling me by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    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).

    1. Re:You're telling me by BoomerSooner · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      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.

  3. Does somebody's diaper need changed? by Keith+Russell · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    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.

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