On Friday, 12 June 2015 at 12:21:12 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Is your mom a software developer? If you spent $160 more and
were able to increase your salary 10x, wouldn't that be worth
it?
10x? What sort of pipe dream is that?
I'm not trying to say everyone should buy a mac or that they
are cheap enough for everyone to afford. I'm saying if your
investment in buying a mac increases your income significantly
(as it did for me), the cost doesn't matter. It's an enabler
for things that just aren't possible without it.
I guess that explains why so many programs with the same
functionality are freeware on Windows and commercial on OSX.
Open-source software development gives me 0 income, so it'd be a
negative net gain.
