m234

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   by m234 16y ago

   Well, you're on the best way of becoming a "free software zealot". See, free software zealots by and large are what they are because they invested a ton of time and effort in some platform only to have that destroyed by a stupid or greedy
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   by m234 16y ago

   You really think developing software in 25 year old technologies (Objective-C, Cocoa) is fun???
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   by m234 16y ago

   Programming isn't a game for many people, it's a profession. The time you spend on learning their platform and languages are sunk costs, and you need to recoup them through money-making products. By restricting developers to their APIs
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   by m234 16y ago

   "They've spent the money and the time to create a great platform." They've spent some money and time, and they have taken a lot of other people's work: Mach, gcc, Smalltalk, BSD, etc. "they dont have a monopoly in the market" That's not so