I'm beginning to think that all the hype about open source and shareware being good is just the rationalization of young, liberal programmers who tend to want more freedom in general and can't afford to buy a decent product.

You don't come right out and say it, (and I don't want to commit any logical fallacies here), but your implication is that there is a direct, positive correlation between ease of installation and the quality of a product.

Wow! That's one hell of a criteria for determining quality. I take it you then believe that 1) IIS is a top quality web server and 2) IE Explorer is a top quality Browser. I guess we should just ignore the fact that IIS security has more holes in it than Sonny Corleone at a tollbooth (as Dennis Miller would put it) and that Explorer is so bad that CERT says "use anything but...". Yeah. That's a criteria I'm going to rush out and adopt.

Your other implication is that a product cannot be decent unless there is a price tag attached. If this were the case, then why the hell are you even using Perl?

Finally, as to your postgreSQL hell. Let me get this straight:
1) You're trying to use an interface which wasn't even written by the postgreSQL development team, but rather by a third party.
2) It isn't "working" for you.
3) Therefore, postgreSQL is a poor product?

Yeah, that's putting blame in the right place.

Here's a question for you: Real developers and read sysAdmins get it done. The rest just bitch and moan. Which group do you fall into?

davidj

In reply to Re: PostgreSQL, Emacs, and other groupieware by davidj
in thread PostgreSQL, Emacs, and other groupieware by Wassercrats

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