On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 03:45:23PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: > > On Aug 16, 2007, at 3:35 PM, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: > > >On 16 Aug 2007, at 10:07, Denny wrote: > >>Then pay for it. Next?
[...] > >Get a mac, then not only will you be paying over the odds for hardware > >but you'll be buying software that has the annoying habit of Just > >Fucking Working. > > ...err, except that SideTrack *is* Mac software And as typical for mac software, absolutely trivial programs all want 15 to 30 bucks for doing things like... converting line terminations for text files. I don't know what it is about the mac ecosystem that encourages this kind of nonsense. Or maybe I've been brainwashed by the Hippy Operating system, but when I write some trivial, but well made software I simply make it available for other people. The overhead of collecting fifteen dollars a pop from individuals for mouse configuration software seems like a net reduction in Quality of Life for everyone involved. And that goes directly against, to my mind, the whole idea of the "just works" Mac message. I've never bought it. Yes, trivial software with a price tag is hateful. Don't use it, okay, I don't. But I hate it so much that the mere *existence* of the crap is enough to piss me off. Large involved software with a price tag does not offend me. I fully understand the work involved. Hello world, ten bucks please? Die. The worst are the bottom-feeders that port a free software application to the mac (ie. create a configuration dialog) and then charge 30 bucks for their modifications. There are lots of these in the lesser-used corners of software, and their sponge-ware seems to discourage the original authors from bothering to do the port. Sad. -josh
