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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.
1. Go to Google.com
2. Search for "Appgen Crack"
3. ????
4. Profit!
As for the source code, you're SOL.
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One reportedly paid $10,000 to have Appgen ported to "SCO and UnixWare" in September, only weeks before the company went away.
And now, Appgen dissapeared too!
Someone needs a hug .
Therefore, it's better to use a tool that's 90% right, if it'll be there forever, as opposed to a tool that's 100%, but might be gone tomorrow.
Yeah. That's why I wear only my non-running analog wristwatch. It's absolutely right twice a day, and it will always be that way.
This is a tautology.
My hard-core version control friends say that everything should be under version control in an ideal environment, including compiler and host operating system! I think that's a bit extreme, but I like to use the -V version option to gcc in my makefiles to at least document which gcc version the code requires.