Linked by Jack Perry on Thu 3rd Jun 2004 17:55 UTC
It's all Waterloo-Maple's fault, really: if they had maintained a version of their computer algebra system for the Amiga, I wouldn't have found it necessary to switch to Mac. Or maybe it's Commodore's fault for mismanaging themselves into oblivion; I don't know. Either way, I became painfully aware three years ago that my little Amiga would no longer satisfy my computing needs. I needed a new home computer.
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Furthermore, Free code trumps features any day.>>
Not if your computer has been rendered into a f'in doorstop because of it.
Or, where I work, not if a *server* has been rendered a f'in doorstop because it didn't like an update. And it took Systems 2 weeks to figure out what was wrong and fix the problem.
Two. Weeks.
Server.
I don't care if the code is free or not.
I care if it WORKS when I need it.