Hopefully we'll see more of this in the future... sounds like it was fun! I work solo with commercial projects on the level Magenta talks about, and wish I had nearly as much fun as it sounds like they did!
Although you open-source preachers and extremists (perhaps fundamentalists? This is becoming almost as bad as Christianity - next thing you know there will be an inquisition!) probably will loathe this move and flame Apple all the more, approach it from the perspective on the company:
You've spent millions of dollars on developing this ground breaking technology that could overthrow SCSI and IDE and serial ports and parrallel ports and even the recently standardized USB, and you've got to recoupe your investments. Are you going to give it away and sell support? Write a book on it? No, you're going to license it to recoupe the investment so you can afford to improve the technology and/or development new ones.
$1 a port is not bad at alls. I pay more in gov't taxes to put 3 gallons of gas in my van's tank than I would on a $20 or $50 or $1000 peripheral or even a $2000 computer. I'd rather my money go to computer technology than right-wing politicians.
Man, this really gets my goat (or cat). As another provider of a free service, I know just how it is to get the flames. I don't blame scoop one bit, I would and have done the same - yank the service from the ingrateful little pricks.
We (providers of free services) spend our time, money, and love making something for other people to use, and we decide to change it, upgrade it, fix it up, and the whiners come out of the woodwork. Ungrateful, undeserving people like that should be dragged out into the street, stripped naked, anally violated by a bear, then slowly burned to death.
To hell with them. Right on, scoop! And to hell with those who think scoop went to far - YOU run a free service for a while, then do something to make it better, and get flamed by hundreds of ingrateful little pricks.
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Hopefully we'll see more of this in the future... sounds like it was fun! I work solo with commercial projects on the level Magenta talks about, and wish I had nearly as much fun as it sounds like they did!
- Maine Coon
MeeeooooW!
Although you open-source preachers and extremists (perhaps fundamentalists? This is becoming almost as bad as Christianity - next thing you know there will be an inquisition!) probably will loathe this move and flame Apple all the more, approach it from the perspective on the company:
You've spent millions of dollars on developing this ground breaking technology that could overthrow SCSI and IDE and serial ports and parrallel ports and even the recently standardized USB, and you've got to recoupe your investments. Are you going to give it away and sell support? Write a book on it? No, you're going to license it to recoupe the investment so you can afford to improve the technology and/or development new ones.
$1 a port is not bad at alls. I pay more in gov't taxes to put 3 gallons of gas in my van's tank than I would on a $20 or $50 or $1000 peripheral or even a $2000 computer. I'd rather my money go to computer technology than right-wing politicians.
- MaineCoon
MEOW!
Man, this really gets my goat (or cat). As another provider of a free service, I know just how it is to get the flames. I don't blame scoop one bit, I would and have done the same - yank the service from the ingrateful little pricks.
We (providers of free services) spend our time, money, and love making something for other people to use, and we decide to change it, upgrade it, fix it up, and the whiners come out of the woodwork. Ungrateful, undeserving people like that should be dragged out into the street, stripped naked, anally violated by a bear, then slowly burned to death.
To hell with them. Right on, scoop! And to hell with those who think scoop went to far - YOU run a free service for a while, then do something to make it better, and get flamed by hundreds of ingrateful little pricks.
- One pissed off Cat, MaineCoon