I still use JOE.
The reason is the same that most choose their preference. I've used it so long, my hands can type the editor commands without me having to pay attention to it. My concentration can stay focused on the program I'm creating.
Lack of funding is just a political issue. In fact we should enact a substantial annual fee to maintain patent protection. It would make patents more expensive, reducing the nonsense patents and provide funding for the patent office and some even for general federal budget.
If the America provides this short-term monopoly, we should at least get compensated well for it.
Now we mainly tax income. Why do we want to discourage income? Instead we should start shifting the tax burden on to other things we don't mind discouraging (and patents, copyrights seem a good place to start)
As one poster already suggested, part of the problem is that we have gone to far. Copyrights have been extended to an unreasonable time and cover too many trivial expressions (posts, emails, letters, etc.) Patents have been extended to copy math, software, business processed and other "pure idea" type areas.
We should roll back the times for copyrights and areas for patents.
Then as an additional approach to reduced expansionary tendencies, we should tax them. A basic idea of taxation is that it discourages things. I have no particular desire to discourage income, so why base most taxes on it. We should tax things like IP that are government granted monopolies and items we'd like to discourage (like carbon emissions).
When I saw the announcement, I was hoping it was the DOS libraries they were releasing. I used OPRO for enough projects. MakeScrn was beautiful for creating quick entry screens.
I've using FPC (FreePascal) under Linux. It runs console (text mode) applications well. I've not used the Lazarus GUI yet though.
If they would have released OPRO, I sure would have taken a shot at converting it to FPC/Linux myself.
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I still use JOE. The reason is the same that most choose their preference. I've used it so long, my hands can type the editor commands without me having to pay attention to it. My concentration can stay focused on the program I'm creating.
The acting is on par with the original series.
I was hoping for better than that.
Lack of funding is just a political issue. In fact we should enact a substantial annual fee to maintain patent protection. It would make patents more expensive, reducing the nonsense patents and provide funding for the patent office and some even for general federal budget. If the America provides this short-term monopoly, we should at least get compensated well for it. Now we mainly tax income. Why do we want to discourage income? Instead we should start shifting the tax burden on to other things we don't mind discouraging (and patents, copyrights seem a good place to start)
Amazing, previously unknown dinosaur found with a few fossil fragments in China and we already know it roamed North America?
But after 11 years in development it never reached a satisfactory level of usability. Wait, ReactOS or Wine?
Wait, wait, ReactOS, Wine, or Windows?
As one poster already suggested, part of the problem is that we have gone to far. Copyrights have been extended to an unreasonable time and cover too many trivial expressions (posts, emails, letters, etc.) Patents have been extended to copy math, software, business processed and other "pure idea" type areas. We should roll back the times for copyrights and areas for patents. Then as an additional approach to reduced expansionary tendencies, we should tax them. A basic idea of taxation is that it discourages things. I have no particular desire to discourage income, so why base most taxes on it. We should tax things like IP that are government granted monopolies and items we'd like to discourage (like carbon emissions).
When I saw the announcement, I was hoping it was the DOS libraries they were releasing. I used OPRO for enough projects. MakeScrn was beautiful for creating quick entry screens.
I've using FPC (FreePascal) under Linux. It runs console (text mode) applications well. I've not used the Lazarus GUI yet though.
If they would have released OPRO, I sure would have taken a shot at converting it to FPC/Linux myself.