They would be in a win-win exchange with other people: they can continue to sell their application as they have done while benefitting from the work of other people that may be interested to fix problems (normally urgent ones!).
Yes, that opens you to competition, but others have done it (Trolltech comes to mind) and seem to be doing fine.
If the software is useful and it was generated by a one man band, where else are you going to get the better support?
To start with, companies that bet their operations in software will not be using this particular application, so a lot of what you are saying does not apply at all.
But smaller companies (other one man bands perhaps?) may find this useful and will pay for the support.
I don't want fucking PCI Express. I don't even know that the hell is that. And I don't want to get a better CPU, that will cost me $40. For what exactly? Email, web browsing, no YouTube nonsense.
So again, why should I waste more money?
My company can get me an expensive machine if they want to. I personally don't need expensive hardware anymore. The complete idea of electronics is for hardware prices to go down. I want to send a clear message to manufacturers that small is the future, big is corporate.
Please tell me how I delete 1000 messages in a folder without going through several pages of messages?
And why if I am telling you something is not working (like in Yahoo hiding messages which are reachable by clicking Next once reading one) I am told everything is OK like if I was a rabid lunatic?
I asked to talk to somebody that understood how email works just to be told more nonsense from a poorly paid tech support reading a script.
I needed to talk to the circus's animal trainer but they kept sending me with the monkey, whose only grace is to say no.
Koffi Annan wanted to have a hair cut in a barber shop somewhere in the deep south, he was told in no uncertain terms that they did not serve "niggers" there, to which he replied he was an African student from Ghana, not a nigger.
The owner agreed with him and proceeded to serve him.
When you get enough money, burning it, sometimes without a specific reason, becomes almost a habit.
Or what? Do you count all the 1 cent (or pence, or whatever) coins you have in your purse? For some people a $100 bill comes to be equivalent in importance.
Perl is an abomination that we have to use because, well, I don't know why.
Most code I have seen in professional environments in the real world is unmaintainable, given the idioms of the language this is unsurprising (sometimes I think it was designed with the purpose of enhancing nerd's egos to see who can obfuscate any given program the most).
As opposed to the current situation where politicians are bought by private interests, they follow the party line and ignore pretty much the wishes of the populace (stem cell research comes to mind).
In a world that is mostly urban in nature such state of affairs is fair. People in non urban areas could then band together to obtain political representation as a minority party.
Where I work, we'll likely throw your resume in the trash if it doesn't have Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Python, OCaml, Scheme, Scala, or some other obscure, clearly self-taught language on it.
NO wonder people have got so little free time left, are less rounded and in general more frustrated.
Somebody having the verb to say the above just shows one aspect of how wrong corporate life can be nowadays.
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Sun has been providing GNOME for some time directly.
As for other utilities, there are the SunFreeware repositories out there that have most stuff you need.
... to exploit commercially the product.
They would be in a win-win exchange with other people: they can continue to sell their application as they have done while benefitting from the work of other people that may be interested to fix problems (normally urgent ones!).
Yes, that opens you to competition, but others have done it (Trolltech comes to mind) and seem to be doing fine.
If the software is useful and it was generated by a one man band, where else are you going to get the better support?
To start with, companies that bet their operations in software will not be using this particular application, so a lot of what you are saying does not apply at all.
But smaller companies (other one man bands perhaps?) may find this useful and will pay for the support.
In communist countries copyright is non existent. That is one "small" detail GPL haters always forget to omit.
I don't want fucking PCI Express. I don't even know that the hell is that. And I don't want to get a better CPU, that will cost me $40. For what exactly? Email, web browsing, no YouTube nonsense.
So again, why should I waste more money?
My company can get me an expensive machine if they want to. I personally don't need expensive hardware anymore. The complete idea of electronics is for hardware prices to go down. I want to send a clear message to manufacturers that small is the future, big is corporate.
Make unsubstantiated claims about Linux?
You lose.
If you need Windows this is clearly not the machine for you.
Unless you are ripping old media, flash or online storage is good enough.
Please tell me how I delete 1000 messages in a folder without going through several pages of messages?
And why if I am telling you something is not working (like in Yahoo hiding messages which are reachable by clicking Next once reading one) I am told everything is OK like if I was a rabid lunatic?
I asked to talk to somebody that understood how email works just to be told more nonsense from a poorly paid tech support reading a script.
I needed to talk to the circus's animal trainer but they kept sending me with the monkey, whose only grace is to say no.
The UK has 3 major parties (4 or more on its constituting parts).
Mexico has 3 plus 2 minor ones.
Germany has 4 major parties (although they normally themselves in two blocks).
Israel, Italy, France have so many that nobody bothers to count them.
And so on and so forth.
Koffi Annan wanted to have a hair cut in a barber shop somewhere in the deep south, he was told in no uncertain terms that they did not serve "niggers" there, to which he replied he was an African student from Ghana, not a nigger.
The owner agreed with him and proceeded to serve him.
You just have to look to other places.
If you think US people is any different you are completely mistaken.
Mr Obama may be just in the crossroads where people are prepared to ignore their tribal prejudices because the options are immensily worst.
.... deaths. Hundred of thousands of them. Unnecessarily. By deceptive means.
I can't think of more power or more important decisions like those (compared to that US internal political matters are fluff).
... is the intellectual equivalent of Bozo the Clown.
.... makes him somehow akin to Einstein?
His science almost cost his life. He was a very religious guy.
Ditto for Darwin, who was at extreme pains to live with his findings.
Religious people feel always threatened by science, because science doesn't pay homage to the platitudes of religious dogma.
You simply can't serve two contradictory masters, one of which is telling you he is always right even if there is evidence of the contrary.
When you get enough money, burning it, sometimes without a specific reason, becomes almost a habit.
Or what? Do you count all the 1 cent (or pence, or whatever) coins you have in your purse? For some people a $100 bill comes to be equivalent in importance.
Perl is an abomination that we have to use because, well, I don't know why.
Most code I have seen in professional environments in the real world is unmaintainable, given the idioms of the language this is unsurprising (sometimes I think it was designed with the purpose of enhancing nerd's egos to see who can obfuscate any given program the most).
In all the years I have programmed that knowledge has been not needed.
It is nice to know that stuff, in the same way it is nice to know the three laws of movement or Fermat's last theorem.
Lets all reinvent the wheel 1000 times.
It is scary to think that the above is said with a straight face.
As opposed to the current situation where politicians are bought by private interests, they follow the party line and ignore pretty much the wishes of the populace (stem cell research comes to mind).
In a world that is mostly urban in nature such state of affairs is fair. People in non urban areas could then band together to obtain political representation as a minority party.
What I used to do in those situation is to point students to the necessary documentation, and then carried on with concepts.
Learning to use a tool is not CS, no matter which way you want to spin it.
Where I work, we'll likely throw your resume in the trash if it doesn't have Haskell, Lisp, Ruby, Python, OCaml, Scheme, Scala, or some other obscure, clearly self-taught language on it.
NO wonder people have got so little free time left, are less rounded and in general more frustrated.
Somebody having the verb to say the above just shows one aspect of how wrong corporate life can be nowadays.
Pathetic.