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Posted by Lothar Scholz
Nov 27, 2018 at 06:43 AM
tightbeam wrote:
If he can’t handle it, he could always open source it. That’s the ideal
>exit strategy for developers who can no longer maintain their software.
>Of course it almost never happens.
Looking at his tech stack (Visual Basic and a few components) i doubt that this is legal for him to release all the code required to rebuild.
Also he uses old proprietary development tools that need to be purchased before anyone can try to build i. It’s already very hard to compile old projects that were designed for open source from grounds up. But with this it’s almost impossible to find anyone who can do this and is interested in maintaining it.
Lets face it, everything is mortal, including software.
Posted by Anthony
Nov 27, 2018 at 01:22 PM
Lothar Scholz wrote:
>Lets face it, everything is mortal, including software.
Interesting insight. But not quite so on this point.
Software is immortal. It is the chessboard that may change and make it (sometime willingly) unusable.
Alice in the Wonderland - and some scientists afterwards - called it the Red queen effect. But the chessboard does not change as quick as some people (producers) would like. So software as a service has been invented.
Posted by tightbeam
Nov 27, 2018 at 05:16 PM
We can have all the compassion in the world for Eduardo as a person - and I’m sure we do - but still criticize his business practices.
MenAgerie wrote:
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>tightbeam wrote:
>After his long silence, he has a ways to go (and a lot of code to write)
>>before he earns back the trust of his customers, potential or
>otherwise.
>>
>
>Have some compassion people. He has clearly been through some trying
>times in the real world!
Posted by washere
Nov 27, 2018 at 09:28 PM
There are other apps and one comes close for moi, though not exactly the same as CT, on the plus side it has other advantages, as do others. He’ll have to re-code from scratch & bottom up. To make it worth his while, might as well use a multi platform UI libkit like Qt or GTK, while he’s at it.
Then commit to maintaining the development into the foreseeable blue yonder, debug, lifecycle, grow etc. He won’t have that sort of time. So most likely might just tinker and fiddle about, as is, a tad or two, just to be able to holler: it’s alive, it’s alive. To placate the great unwashed outside his drawbridge, for a lil while longer. Even planets and galaxies die, eventually.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 27, 2018 at 11:52 PM
All this talk of death and dying and doom and gloom and pessimism…
I nearly forgot this thread was about the good news of resurrection! Rejoice, people!
In fact no-one, not even the software has actually died, thank goodness.
CT is running perfectly well on my laptop. I’m not getting a single bug. Nothing. Zilch. It’s alive!
Moreover, for the vast majority of CT’s existence, Eduardo had provided exemplary customer service.
We are talking about a developer who quite often implemented customer requests and suggestions on the same day or within a couple of days. Try that with the likes of [substitute your favourite big tech corporation]!
Surely we can see some positives in the news of an extraordinary developer recovering from an accident and announcing that he’s back?