Re:Is Lisp still useful in today's world? (2011)
by juan_juarez on Thursday February 21, 2013 @01:26PM
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> commercial ones that come with excellent support
Maybe I'm just too small-time for it to matter but what, exactly, does this commercial support actually buy you? In the last 10 years of programming, I've only run into a handful of bugs in my tools. When dealing with OSS projects, they were already known and fixed in newer versions. When dealing with $BIG_DATABASE_COMPANY they told me to use a workaround and didn't fix the bug until the next major release of the software.
I don't have a problem paying for commercial software, I understand it supports development and improvement of the tools, but what exactly are you getting when you spend (tens or hundreds) of thousands of dollars on licencing costs for support?
Maybe I'm just too small-time for it to matter but what, exactly, does this commercial support actually buy you? In the last 10 years of programming, I've only run into a handful of bugs in my tools. When dealing with OSS projects, they were already known and fixed in newer versions. When dealing with $BIG_DATABASE_COMPANY they told me to use a workaround and didn't fix the bug until the next major release of the software.
I don't have a problem paying for commercial software, I understand it supports development and improvement of the tools, but what exactly are you getting when you spend (tens or hundreds) of thousands of dollars on licencing costs for support?