On 19/06/2025 08.03, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 19.06.25 um 13:59 schrieb Mark Filipak:
My file manager and my text editor are both commercial programs. They work superbly and are well
documented in English, not programmers' pigeon English.
then use your file manager and text editor
oh - both can't do complex things
The hell they can't! My file manager is TotalCommander. I bought it at a time when you could
actually buy software -- I bought it as shareware (remember shareware?). TotalCommander can do
almost anything. My text editor is TextPad. It can do almost anything with text. Both have regular
expression processing, for example, that's built-in and functions very smoothly.
There is a FOSS clone of TextPad. It's named NotePad++. It's somewhat pathetic.
Codesmiths should not manage projects and they should not write user documentation. That's simply
because they're not qualified for those jobs.
you are not qualified
In fact, I am qualified. I ran projects in Silicon Valley for 25 years.
FOSS is a failure and it's killed the market for well run projects and for well-written
applications precisely because everyone needs to make a living and you can't make a living writing
FOSS. That's a widely held opinion, especially among professionals.
proven as nonsense
A few years ago I was corresponding with a former boss. He was a college professor in Computer
Science and the Director of Advanced Engineering at Atari. I told him about my experiences with
FFmpeg. He said that FFmpeg is a guild, a trade guild.
I thought about that for a long time. He's right. I proposed, on this mailing list, that FFmpeg
become an actual guild, with dues, so that the developers could make a living. My posts just
attracted ridicule.
Developers and users should be working together. That doesn't happen.
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