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Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools
jexrand recommends an interview with John De Goes in which he argues: "The tools market is dead. Open source killed it." The software developer turned president of N-BRAIN explains the effect that open source has had on the developer tools market, and how this forced the company to release the personal edition of UNA free of charge. According to De Goes, selling a source-code editor, even a very good one, is all but impossible in the post-open source era, especially given that, "Some developers would rather quit their job than be forced to use a new editor or IDE." N-BRAIN's decision is but one in a string of similar announcements from tools companies announcing the free release of their previously commercial development tools.
That'd because these companies don't employ respectable C++ programmers. I would not touch Visual Studio with a 10 ft pole for C++. My code works in Netbeans or g++ but breaks in VS beause Microsoft doesn't like being ISO compliant and forgets to add support for the New function or is very nitpicky about header includes not having .h on the end.
Netbeans is all I need to create kick ass software and it's free and open source. YOu just have to look a little harder to find the netbeans source code on their site.
Your ultra-patronising, but tiresomely predictable little rant doesn't impress anybody, and certainly won't change anybodies mind.
You got off to a terrible start when you invoked "human nature" - you may as well have invoked pixies to back up your argument. The idea that there exists a "human nature" which determines our behaviour is a product of overzealous, mysanthropic game theorists trying to apply their very specific models to general human behaviour, an endeavour which has fallen flat on its face every time.
This idea has sometimes been presented as having a basis in biology, which is also bullshit. Any genetic imperatives that might influence us are clearly outweighed by the massively unnatural environments we find ourselves in, and the fact that social factors change radically in different times and places.
Its also been picked up on by arrogant little randroids such as yourself as the ideological justifiction for a system that causes millions of needless deaths each year through lack of food and preventable diseases. Don't even try the predictable 'bad apples' defence because the system you advocate has had a free run of 99% of the world for nearly two decades and the problems I described are getting worse. There is nobody else left to blame.
Whilst others suffer needlessly through no fault of their own, you have clearly enjoyed a life of luxury. Then one day you picked up a copy of Atlas Shrugged and discovered that far from being an overprivaleged undeserving prick you were actually some kind of champion of freedom. Naturally you need to believe this to sleep at night.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
I just did retard
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
The ants are laughing at your puny organization scheme.
It should be legal to shoot a socialist on sight. They really are sub-human vermin.
You are the kind of person convinced they 'put themselves through school' whilst living in a country that one way or another subsides this to an extent through those taxes you so loathe.
You are the kind of person who thinks running a business is 'hard work' and a 'risk', but probably wouldn't have the nerve to say that to the face of a Chinese coal miner.
You are the kind of person who honestly thinks their own unrestrained greed and selfishness helps others in spite of the millions of people killed by such attitudes.
You are the kind of person who thinks everyone who is poor deserves it through being 'less willing to work' - which when applied to a global scale essentially means you think various non-white ethnic groups are just too inherently lazy to live. This, if you hadn't figured it out, makes you a racist.
Where you've gone wrong in your life is that your parents seem to have failed to instill in you any kind of moral code. They failed to raise a decent human being.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?