Why do evil programmers love open source software?

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[–]trident765[S] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Bullshit. When I tried to do this at work they tried to manipulate me into stopping for a few months before finally convincing upper management to intervene and shut my software down. There was a team of people at work who had adopted my software and they were banned from using it. But they kept using it because the evil scum offered no useful alternative, and they would keep asking me questions until finally last week I was informed that upper management has now banned from even talking to the head of this team.

It's not just that they don't want to fix their software. It's also that they force everyone to use their junk. The head of the team I mentioned told me if it were just one or the other it wouldn't be so bad, but the problem is that it is both.

[–]Canbot 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That is not normal my guy. Stop extrapolating from that absurdity to the rest of the world.

If you can't get a straight answer as to why they are doing that it probably has a lot more to do with their software spying on you or producing something that can be data mined by them using some other software. It has nothing to do with them simply wanting you to use their software because it is their software.

[–]JackEddyfier 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Management don't want you messing about with code for the sake of it - as they see it. You need to go to management & convince them to add the bug fix you want as a new feature, or convince them it's in their interests to remove the bug. Also - in your next coding job - make sure the bloody management understand the importance of properly working, bug-free code!