An argument for giving back to the Unix community, from which they derive so much development capital, should not be justified by popularity alone.
If you deliberately give something away, don't start crying when someone else is successful with it. I'm sure the "Unix community" knew what they were doing when they didn't release their code under the GPL, but more often under a BSD-style license.
I had a good chuckle at the programmers who were more productive using Linux 'cause it had such good keyboard shortcuts.
Then there was the poor scientist who professed to using Excel... predictably shot down by passing gnumericists.
So here's a little programmer productivity challenge: how many lines of code would it take to integrate either of these fine spreadsheet applications into your GUI application?
You're allowed to use as many keyboard shortcuts as you want.
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If you deliberately give something away, don't start crying when someone else is successful with it. I'm sure the "Unix community" knew what they were doing when they didn't release their code under the GPL, but more often under a BSD-style license.
I had a good chuckle at the programmers who were more productive using Linux 'cause it had such good keyboard shortcuts.
Then there was the poor scientist who professed to using Excel... predictably shot down by passing gnumericists.
So here's a little programmer productivity challenge: how many lines of code would it take to integrate either of these fine spreadsheet applications into your GUI application?
You're allowed to use as many keyboard shortcuts as you want.
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It's interesting that despite Linux's free availability that Windows is (apparently) still widely pirated.
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