Mark Constable: >> 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. > 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.)
