Who said anything about hate? Its a strong word. I don'thate it at all. I love FOSS more, thats all. As an user I like more, as a developer I like it even more.
Thats good, but sometimes, people won't talk about hate! They only show hatred :) i hope you didn't have that in mind... And believe me, except a few ignorant people who are M$ *fanboys*, [those who never went beyond or below Visual Studio, for instance :)] there's no developer who wouldn't like FOSS!!! :)
people who pay amounts of the order of thousands of dollars for a single software license to these companies. That proves their efficacy.
People pay tons of dollars for Windows even, so? I foundmyself at distress and was almost depressed using Windows Vista. The commandline still sucks for example, it sucks since Window Last Century. Don't tell me CLI is of no use for Vista's target audience.
Its not! Believe me, all those who were foolish enough to cough out 20000 bucks for just the eye-candy upgrade hate command-line! Many of them never opened cmd.exe in their entire lives!! And these are the ones who know computer as windoze and nothing but windoze, and a browser as IE and nothing but IE!!! (of course there are a few exceptions, who are now suffering and cursing themselves for their decision to upgrade! :D )
What if I want to develop on Windows for some reason? I don't even get a decent dev platform for my moneys worth. And no I don't want use Visual Studio
Don't know about that! Well all i can say is if you make a nice usable application for Linux platform for the good of humanity, you should make it work in Windows and Mac and as many platforms as possible.. Don't tell me thats not possible! Blender's already available for _six_ different platforms including windows!!!
And before further comments on these companies I would request you to go to their websites and check out their news releases, company's history, and the efficacy of their software.
Ummm? FOSS applications don't have websites? News?Releases? I thought we do in most projects.
Its not about having websites!! :) its about their history!! They are in no sense inferior or heading towards doomsday!!! Thats the point! You'll be surprised looking at Adobe's growth curve!! Its phenomenal, even after licensing single copy of Photoshop for more than Rs 30000 today! (talking abt photoshop because thats what they started with near the river Adobe :) ) Why do users (Graphic/Web designers, artists) buy it? ever checked out? Thats what is required from the GIMP development team! [BTW i love GIMP, but can't deny that Photoshop is far more efficient in producing what i and my client wants. Of course, for a certain level, it would depend more on the artist than on his tool! There are many things you can achieve to an equivalent level on both of these!]
Nevertheless, hating a CSS vendor or a CSS, for that matter, won't serve our purpose; contributing to the OSS development to the level they do, might!!
I contribute, do you? And I don't hate closed source software.
Thats really nice. I look forward to joining the league. :)
Cheers!Pradeepto
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