Software House Rant

[foozball3000]

I'm surely not the only one who feels like this... but some software shops are really pulling the feathers off the chicken by charging for software that any noob can code in 2 days.
Good grief... there is nothing wrong with hosing freebies along with the other software you sell.

For example, I downloaded an alarm clock program (Because I really don't want to write one myself), and it said it's free... until I installed it. Now it keeps on asking to register.

I have plenty of tools that I wrote, which I'm more than willing to share for free. Like our dir-listing program. It took a few hours to code, and it saves me even more... but anyone can code it, so I don't see the need to charge someone $20 for it.

/Rant

 

[sn3rd]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

 

[foozball3000]

Bwhahahaha! Good point.
Where are the days when passion and loving your work was more important than selling oneself out?

 

[hyperian]

I enjoy getting paid to write code. That said, I'm more than happy to release the source to apps that I've written for free. Other devs have given me so much already (Linux, Apache Project), I would feel like a thief, asking for money for a little app.

 

[guest2013-1]

Yes well, thats why I'd always write my own.... who needs sleep anyway

 

[Keeper]

Yes well, thats why I'd always write my own.... who needs sleep anyway

plus it's fun, clicking one button and knowing there are hundreds of things going on behind the curtains

BTW FB3K, an alarmclock program?

 

[foozball3000]

plus it's fun, clicking one button and knowing there are hundreds of things going on behind the curtains

BTW FB3K, an alarmclock program?

Yes, I forgot my phone at work yesterday... so I didn't have an alarm to wake me up.
I did end up with an awesome setup... Set PC Bios to boot up at 5 am, Set kalarm to play some Skillet at 5:10 am... instant wake-up!

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Yay! Skillet!

 

[Guest 20221009]

Yes, I forgot my phone at work yesterday... so I didn't have an alarm to wake me up.
I did end up with an awesome setup... Set PC Bios to boot up at 5 am, Set kalarm to play some Skillet at 5:10 am... instant wake-up!

I know what you mean..coded somthing along the lines last year when I was left by myself in the flat.. the app just played a sound file and worked like a charm