Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ...
by omouse on Thursday June 21, 2007 @12:18AM
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The point of open source software is to act as an alternative to the proprietary stuff out there. Therefore, you can and should expect free support. It's in the best interests of the project to have more people use it.
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Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ...
by machine on Thursday June 21, 2007 @03:31AM
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I understand that it is in the best interests of an open source developer to give support for his software (assuming he wants people to use it), but he's in no way obligated to do so. Some people just develop software for fun and make it available to the public as an afterthought in the hopes like minded people will find it useful. I know with the personal projects I've released as open source, although I fixed bugs and responded to requests when I could, it was my goal to give prompt technical support.
Re:If you want to learn Lisp, be ready to meet the scowling ...
by omouse on Thursday June 21, 2007 @11:49AM
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Some people just develop software for fun and make it available to the public as an afterthought in the hopes like minded people will find it useful.
That's true. But this is a programming language we're talking about. The goal is to create a good implementation and part of that is having good support. Does a programming language exist if no one uses it?