Seems like as time has marched on in the software industry, documentation and support are approaching zero while users are tangled up in more and more licensing/protection strings.
The "Corporate Model" (even in our lovely 'New Economy') has not bode well for software. In the hire-today-fire-tomorrow devlopment environment, bloated buggy code is thriving.
Throw in schemes like these at you have to wonder what your "buying".
regardless of the tripe in the article, Jon provoked some excellent responses.
It takes a special person to irritate so many!
BTW, my first post (hi mom!)
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Least he's talking.
A Commercial product will yield to customer demands. Thus should go the 'gcc thing'.
Open Source + Open dialog = success? I think so..
Seems like as time has marched on in the software industry, documentation and support are approaching zero while users are tangled up in more and more licensing/protection strings. The "Corporate Model" (even in our lovely 'New Economy') has not bode well for software. In the hire-today-fire-tomorrow devlopment environment, bloated buggy code is thriving. Throw in schemes like these at you have to wonder what your "buying".
regardless of the tripe in the article, Jon provoked some excellent responses. It takes a special person to irritate so many! BTW, my first post (hi mom!)