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Please never use my software. > Because it has no benefit for you, only for the company. Really?! Making a tool you use every day better has no benefit for yo
by oddevan 12y ago
Please never use my software.
> Because it has no benefit for you, only for the company.
Really?! Making a tool you use every day better has no benefit for you? Sure, I can build my own text editor if I really wanted to, but I'd rather send a bug report to BBEdit to fix a problem in an otherwise good product.
- to3m 12y agoYes, this is my attitude as well. A lot of the work I've done has required the use of proprietary tools; you might not be getting paid to improve the tool, but you are (presumably...) getting paid to produce a product, and if the tool is getting in your way somehow then you need to do something about it! Even if you don't bother to report usability issues or suggest improvements or what have you, if you encounter a bug that's blocking progress, sitting on your hands isn't going to help anybody. (Of course, reporting it might not do much either ;) - but that's something you need to find out on a vendor-by-vendor basis. Some are responsive.)