Scott Kane wrote:
[snip]
years. I'm keeping my cool here - but you are talking a load of
dog waffle. The crappiest software in existence is coming from
ISV's (wanna be shareware authors) - the net is full of it - sadly.
They perform no bug testing, no user focus groups, no market research
and spend their whole live bitching and moaning about pirates, instead
of improving their all to often garbage products. Writing a programming
compiler and associated IDE and tools can not in any way be compared
to the trivial applications attempted by ISV's aka shareware authors.
I wish it was not the case - but it is. A days downloading and
download.com will support this contention. 90% write knock off
app's (also known as "me too" app's) for tools that clone the likes
of Winzip and other products and they don't even improve on the
idea - in fact they ship inferior rot and then cry foul when consumers
don't buy it.
I must stand corrected to a point. You are right that there is a lot of
crap out there... I have seen this myself also. I should have said
something to that effect. One developer that stands out in my memory is
an author that goes by the name of "Babya". This one may hold the title
for the crappiest software ever. But then another name comes to mind
for some rock solid software, and that's "Erik Fookes", developer of
"NoteTab" and "NoteTab Pro". I have used "NoteTab Pro" for years now.
Never encountered a bug myself, and I wasn't just a casual user either.
But even with all the crap out there, there's a lot of outstanding
software from the independents. There are even freeware apps out there
that put commercial software to shame. Check out the "Pricelessware"
list sometime.
I have come across some of the best software I've ever had from the
independent developers, and not the commercial developers. And I've
seen some seriously bad software from large commercial developers too.
-Garrett
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