Before GCC became widespread, porting software used to be a major bitch.
Only if you didn't write your software correctly. Try separating your core application (written in Standard C, of course!) from its host OS hooks, and watch porting turn into a trivial task. Our complex enterprise-scaling application was trivially ported to Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and z/OS with a minimal of fuss. Performs extremely well on all those platforms, as well.
But compared to closed-source software which is poor and impossible to maintain, it seems OSS still wins.
Oh, please. Most comercial software is extremely well done, and is extremely well cared for. Please look at the whole picture, and not stereotype an industry due to a couple of bad players (but extremely shrewd businessmen).
Or perhaps I am a nut bar too.
No "perhaps" about it, chief. Equating personal freedoms with software "free"dom shows a lack of perspective on life. Computers are tools, people are not.
Usability at the FSF? What the fuck do you do? Ensure Emacs' use of Lisp is obtuse? Do you decide "cute" compile flags and product names just so that you can have bullshit like "-liberty"?
There's a huge difference between being a usability "geek" and being a usability expert. Considering what the FSF puts out, my guess is that your team is nothing more than a rubber stamp.
Because Internet Explorer still happens to be the most widely used browser out there?
Seriously, you "fighting the man" is cute and all, but at the end of the day, pages need to be created so that the largest collection of the market are properly served.
Sometimes, that means breaking the "standards", because the standards were too short sighted. Internet Explorer has been a fantastic platform to develop on, provding companies the ability to write amazing interfaces in a thin-client environment.
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they attack you, and then you win"
First the cluless engineers ignore companies with their "lets reinvent the wheel!" FSF, then they mock corporations who provide solutions for reasonable costs, then they attack (with words and allegations of impropriatary behavior), then... >:-)
You kids really need to learn - the GPL has no place in the software industry.
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Before GCC became widespread, porting software used to be a major bitch.
Only if you didn't write your software correctly. Try separating your core application (written in Standard C, of course!) from its host OS hooks, and watch porting turn into a trivial task. Our complex enterprise-scaling application was trivially ported to Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, HP-UX, and z/OS with a minimal of fuss. Performs extremely well on all those platforms, as well.
But compared to closed-source software which is poor and impossible to maintain, it seems OSS still wins.
Oh, please. Most comercial software is extremely well done, and is extremely well cared for. Please look at the whole picture, and not stereotype an industry due to a couple of bad players (but extremely shrewd businessmen).
Or perhaps I am a nut bar too. No "perhaps" about it, chief. Equating personal freedoms with software "free"dom shows a lack of perspective on life. Computers are tools, people are not.
I plan on helping Open Office by ensuring people only use quality Microsoft Office products. ;-)
Usability at the FSF? What the fuck do you do? Ensure Emacs' use of Lisp is obtuse? Do you decide "cute" compile flags and product names just so that you can have bullshit like "-liberty"?
There's a huge difference between being a usability "geek" and being a usability expert. Considering what the FSF puts out, my guess is that your team is nothing more than a rubber stamp.
Because Internet Explorer still happens to be the most widely used browser out there? Seriously, you "fighting the man" is cute and all, but at the end of the day, pages need to be created so that the largest collection of the market are properly served. Sometimes, that means breaking the "standards", because the standards were too short sighted. Internet Explorer has been a fantastic platform to develop on, provding companies the ability to write amazing interfaces in a thin-client environment.
"First they ignore you, then they mock you, then they attack you, and then you win"
First the cluless engineers ignore companies with their "lets reinvent the wheel!" FSF, then they mock corporations who provide solutions for reasonable costs, then they attack (with words and allegations of impropriatary behavior), then... >:-)
You kids really need to learn - the GPL has no place in the software industry.
Uhh...where did the parent mention KDE?