1 Aug
2005
1 Aug
'05
11:20 a.m.
Mark Constable:
Extremely provocating rubbush!
In addtition to general generalisation, you make programmers seem like
some mindless robots slaving for their users. Personally, I don't care
very much whether my software is used. That does not matter. Its the fun
of making new types of software, and that I need the software myself. If
others like the software too, thats great!, but its normally not of very
much importance for whether I keep developing or not.
(I also of have a lot of software that is not released to the public,
because no one else probably wouldn't have any use for it, which I guess
is common.)
If you will
indulge me, I want to know
what makes you spend the time you do on this stuff so guys like me can
pilfer legally and freely your hard works and then subsequently bitch at
random about how it doesn't work! :)
You make it sound like a one way street all about the developer(s).
A "project" cannot survive without users. If users do not use the
software the developers are sweating over then that software project
will go nowhere and die. Every bit as much as us users leach the
efforts of developers is the developers need us as users or else
their efforts will come to nothing... they also need to pay homage
to their userbase... or another project, that does so, will succeed
in the long term and their baby will not.