Open Source Killing Commercial Developer Tools 742
jexrand recommends an interview with John De Goes in which he argues: "The tools market is dead. Open source killed it." The software developer turned president of N-BRAIN explains the effect that open source has had on the developer tools market, and how this forced the company to release the personal edition of UNA free of charge. According to De Goes, selling a source-code editor, even a very good one, is all but impossible in the post-open source era, especially given that, "Some developers would rather quit their job than be forced to use a new editor or IDE." N-BRAIN's decision is but one in a string of similar announcements from tools companies announcing the free release of their previously commercial development tools.
Why complain? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:and piracy killed music (Score:3, Funny)
Diesel engines (and electricity on the railways) killed steam, steam killed sail. Slave rowers were killed off by cannon and the fact that a 17th century man-o-war was simply to big and well protected against cannon shot into the waterline for any galley to stand a chance of successfully ramming it.
Yes.. I'm done nitpicking...
Re:and piracy killed music (Score:5, Funny)
Also (Score:5, Funny)
and people who'd rather quit their job, than embrace new technology, are no loss IMHO
Re:If you did RTFA, you should be able to solve th (Score:5, Funny)
Re:and piracy killed music (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Urg (Score:5, Funny)
So, for a while I was using Notepad. Then I started using gVim and life was good, but I noticed that I really wasn't pissing off the Java devs enough so I started using Visual Studio to edit my Java - drove 'em mad.
Re:and piracy killed music (Score:5, Funny)
piece of mind = 2 cents
peace of mind = priceless
Re:and piracy killed music (Score:3, Funny)
NOW GET BACK TO WORK!
It's Rampant (Score:3, Funny)