01-19-2024, 05:23 PM
(01-19-2024, 01:34 PM)zaadstra Wrote: Well, I don't know what to say. As a non-native English speaker, .... I'm speechless.
I think virus and malware protection are good things, as are firewalls and also good common sense.
Yes it costs you some cpu cycles but it can save a lot of misery. Like for companies, who just require those tools on pc's and laptops.
As a software distributor I would think twice before making statements like above. I am looking at QB64pe with different eyes now.
As a human being, I would think twice before making statements like above. I am looking at you with different eyes now.
Developers are people, and they're entiled to share their opinions on anything they want. If you sit down and write a 1000 line "Hello World" program and then offer to share it via the web, does that mean that you no longer get to share your opinion on which OS is better? Or what coding language is better? Or which hard drive is better? Or what anit-virus someone should use? Or even it you personally find anti-viruses and security settings to be much more of a PITA than anything they were ever made to protect against?
Perhaps if you're SELLING A product, you'll want to refrain from offering any opinion outside of your product, such as Bud Lite and the backlash against their politics. But if you're just working on a project, AS A HOBBY, and then you decide the share that hobby with the world for free... WTH would you *ever* withhold your personal opinion over anything?
See, that's the thing about Phoenix Edition -- we don't claim to be "software developers". We just consider ourselves to be hobbyists working on a pet project that we enoy, in our spare time. We don't get paid. We don't earn any endorsements. Nobody's professional work, jobtitle, promotion, or livelyhood is on the line based on our performance. QB64PE is a HOBBY that we enjoy working on, and we share it freely so others who enjoy the same hobby can indulge in it with us.
Now, if sharing my hobby means I'm not going to be able to state my opinion on whatsoever subject I want, or else I may end up affecting the count of the userbase.... Welp... So long! You know what -- if my opinion offends one person, or a bazillion people, at the end of the day, *I STILL GET PAID THE SAME -- NOTHING!!*
"Gosh, Steve doesn't like all the security features and account controls and firewalls and antiviruses and run time protections and having to tell his own computer that he's giving it permission to do what he wants it to do every time he turns around! Guess I just won't program in any version of QB64 which he works on from now on! How dare he share such an opinion!! Nuck! Nuck!"
Well darn. I'm sorry if I offended you with my opinion. PLEASE! PLEASE! PLEEEEAAASSSSEEEEE keep downloading and using the programming language that we work on and offer for absolutely nothing! I'll be certain to run all my thoughts and opinions and such past you in the future to make certain they all are upheld to your vigerous standards! After all, I'd lose absolutely all motivation to continue working on something which I personally enoy working on and sharing, just cause your opinion changed over my views on something unrelated! Heck, I might not even be able to sleep at.... Zzzzzzzzzzz.zz..zzzzzz.zzzzzz.....
