Hmmm... long time no post. I guess this is largely because
I haven't really worked on much open source stuff lately,
or perhaps I've just been antisocial :P
The motivation to code my cool game has kinda fallen away
lately, since I've managed to score a games programming
job. I dare say I'll get over it soon and start again ;)
I've become increasingly disillusioned with the whole open-
source thing. The programs produced are almost universally
crap, and lately I've found most tools I want to use have
been much better under Win2K.
I think much of the open-source community has kinda missed
the point a bit. The single most important feature of open
source software, to me, is to be able to fix problems in
the program I'm using. Doing this requires a few very
important things:
I don't think I've seen a single open-source project which
has those two things. (This isn't to say they don't exist,
just that no program I've ever tried to modify has had it.)
The other thing that really puts me off, is that fact that
every time I try to install a new program (the latest one
was Anjuta2), I lose half a day trying to upgrade all the
things required for it to compile. I guess that comes from
everyone using unstable libraries all the time. (Unstable
library could probably be defined as 'Is installed on a
Linux box').
Anyway, that's my rant for today.