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I had the same experience with OmniGraffle, https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle It just worked. There was support. I wo
by nerpderp82 3y ago
I had the same experience with OmniGraffle, https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle https://www.omnigroup.com/omnigraffle
It just worked. There was support. I wouldn't dig a hole in the ground with my bare hands, why wouldn't I use good tools. Of course I would like to use F/OSS for various reasons.
The model I absolutely love is Jetbrains, their core product is OSS, Apache licensed. The whole thing, totally usable. https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community https://github.com/JetBrains/intellij-community
The money I send their way does both, it pays for developers and it puts an amazing artifact in the world that others can use and learn from. If they weren't open source, I wouldnt pay for it. I don't know how many others are the same as me, but Jetbrains really deserves credit here.
- makeitdouble 3y agoJetbrains' model is really the best of both worlds. One reason I never could get into OmniGraffle: I can't just pass a file to a coworker to continue editing on their side, if they doesn't also pay for OmniGraffle. In contrast a plantUml/mermaid diagram will work, and they'll have the choice on how they want to edit it (albeit I don't think there is any good, non text based visual editors...) A commercial player coming up with a very good plantUml/mermaid compatible visual editor would be a godsend (albeit, such a niche market I don't know if it would be profitable)