Interclue and What Going Proprietary Can Do

Linux.com (which shares a corporate overlord with Slashdot) has an interesting look at what going proprietary can mean for your overall effectiveness. Using Firefox extension "Interclue" as the object lesson, the piece looks at both the engineering and social difficulties surrounding the project. "Even more significantly, the efforts to commercialize only detract from the software itself. The basic idea behind Interclue would make for a handy Web utility, but seems too slight to build a business around. The effort to do so only leads to complications that do nothing to enhance the basic utility, and to pleas for donations that can only annoy. The result is that, if your position on free software doesn't lead you to avoid Interclue, the efforts to monetize it almost certainly will."

Comments

Re:Proprietary solutions

[MrNaz]

It seems a new dialect of Idiotish is born every time the high school system vomits out another generation.

Can we stop it with the language mutilation please? Yes, I know languages evolve, but what's going on now is not evolution, but more akin to what happened to the wildlife around Chernobyl.

Re:Clue Stick

[Sir_Lewk]

Your brain is unsmart.