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Maybe yes, and it is also free like in free puppy, but guess what: The expensive puppets needs house training as well and they bite too and more worrying their
by eitland 6y ago
Maybe yes, and it is also free like in free puppy, but guess what: The expensive puppets needs house training as well and they bite too and more worrying their previous owner refuses to agree that he has sold it - and he bites.
My qualifications: I've installed and supported Oracle databases for customers for years and I frequently wished they were Postgres.
Also more expensive pianos generally won't play automatically either and if they did you'd probably pay for them to stop sooner or later.
Software setup and installation is in many ways an art. Sometimes done on site with the customers watching, other times meticulously crafted as install and getting started wizards or whatever.
- EvanAnderson 6y agoI don't think most developers have ever administered proprietary software so they don't really "get it". A developer mindset sees having source access as about developing the software. For an administrator, though, having source access is the difference between fumbling in the dark and looking like a fool (or paying vendor tech support to act like a fool for you) versus being able to look at the code and understand what's happening when documentation doesn't agree with reality, etc. Many of us are forced to integrate proprietary software. We have to live with the compiled artifacts we're given (for "support" reasons, because license agreements say we can't reverse-engineer/decompile, because we want our Customers to have systems that aren't one-offs that can be supported by the "next guy", etc). When I'm stuck fighting with proprietary software and unable to see the inner workings I find myself pining for free/open-source software.