Snappy the Clam

You know, I don't mean this to turn into Son of Winerlog, but it's such a rich field, you just can't resist.

I believe I even know the lesson of all this michegas -- it's about users deciding what they want and proactively getting it. If you start a negotiation with "I won't pay you any money" -- you're certain to not get anything valuable in return.

Yeah. You know, like Apache, vi, Linux, Emacs (whose text-editing boots the UserLand outliner is not even fit to lick.) How much worse is it when you pay someone money and you STILL don't get the features you want, and can't hire someone else to put them in, or put them in yourself, because they don't provide source? Then you're really dumb.