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I guess in this instance strapped for cash and time means closed source. From my limited experience, setting up open source software takes more time.

by DTrejo 17y ago

jacquesm 17y ago
In my experience it is the exact opposite. I think that mostly boils down to what your experience is. But the GGP effectively encourages people to break both their license agreements and the law. If you're strapped for cash you also don't get a free ride to go and steal stuff. If the price of being strapped for cash would be to have to learn how to set up open source software then so be it. But given the fact that you could easily make a business turning over a couple of 100 grand annually using just apache and (forgive me) PHP means that if you choose to abuse an MSDN subscription to be able to use closed source proprietary stuff that you are doing so deliberately. I really have a problem with effectively encouraging people to break the law in a public forum, even if the manufacturer of the product has some hidden gain from this behaviour.
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- jrockway 17y ago
  I will second this. I tried for a few days to use Visual Studio to link some C++ code to a DLL that was supplied by a third-party vendor. I never got it to work. This was literally "hello world" calling a function in a DLL, and I couldn't get it to compile. After much googling and asking around, I gave up and used gcc instead. It worked the first time. As someone who has always used free software, I always assume that if someone gives me very expensive proprietary software, it will be problem-free. It hasn't happened yet.
  - daok 17y ago
    "As someone who has always used free software," This is why you haven't success with MS stuff. For people who have always use MS stuff, it's faster and easier to stick on the stack.

5 ms·

I guess in this instance strapped for cash and time means closed source. From my limited experience, setting up open source software takes more time.

by DTrejo 17y ago

I guess in this instance strapped for cash and time means closed source. From my limited experience, setting up open source software takes more time.

jacquesm 17y ago
In my experience it is the exact opposite. I think that mostly boils down to what your experience is. But the GGP effectively encourages people to break both their license agreements and the law. If you're strapped for cash you also don't get a free ride to go and steal stuff. If the price of being strapped for cash would be to have to learn how to set up open source software then so be it. But given the fact that you could easily make a business turning over a couple of 100 grand annually using just apache and (forgive me) PHP means that if you choose to abuse an MSDN subscription to be able to use closed source proprietary stuff that you are doing so deliberately. I really have a problem with effectively encouraging people to break the law in a public forum, even if the manufacturer of the product has some hidden gain from this behaviour.
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- jrockway 17y ago
  I will second this. I tried for a few days to use Visual Studio to link some C++ code to a DLL that was supplied by a third-party vendor. I never got it to work. This was literally "hello world" calling a function in a DLL, and I couldn't get it to compile. After much googling and asking around, I gave up and used gcc instead. It worked the first time. As someone who has always used free software, I always assume that if someone gives me very expensive proprietary software, it will be problem-free. It hasn't happened yet.
  - daok 17y ago
    "As someone who has always used free software," This is why you haven't success with MS stuff. For people who have always use MS stuff, it's faster and easier to stick on the stack.