Well, as a young dev myself, I'm more interested in coding apps, and in reaching stable platforms that real people use, like Windows. I'm no open source purist, although I do put everything I make under GPL because I think people should have the freedom to improve on my ideas. I'm not one of those lured by iPhone development: I do object to their awful restrictions on apps and totalitarian management of the development ecosystem, but I'm not bothered by a platform being closed source.
For some additional insight, I'm kind of glad 80's computer nerds working at Red Hat are coding the OS: If Linux development was anything like one of my projects, it would broken every few revisions, have something major wrong that I don't really care about each release, requiring a major fix by a second rate coder within a few days, which happens to be when I'm out with friends and can't commit a new release. Leave the platform to the professionals.
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The license fees for public screenings probably just went up.
haha yep, me too. slashdot apparently has a learning curve for a mind used to wordpress. I'll get it down soon
Well, as a young dev myself, I'm more interested in coding apps, and in reaching stable platforms that real people use, like Windows. I'm no open source purist, although I do put everything I make under GPL because I think people should have the freedom to improve on my ideas. I'm not one of those lured by iPhone development: I do object to their awful restrictions on apps and totalitarian management of the development ecosystem, but I'm not bothered by a platform being closed source. For some additional insight, I'm kind of glad 80's computer nerds working at Red Hat are coding the OS: If Linux development was anything like one of my projects, it would broken every few revisions, have something major wrong that I don't really care about each release, requiring a major fix by a second rate coder within a few days, which happens to be when I'm out with friends and can't commit a new release. Leave the platform to the professionals.