I said it became off the reaches of normal because it was downright rude and offending towards developers.
Aah, I understand why you said that now. :)
: ) No, it's not what you thought. You missed the fact where I said that I'm not talking about corona team in these statements, I even repeated it in my last post, I'm talking about SaaS-"only", like adobe and AD are doing. Sorry for your misunderstanding, I think everything is fine then :)
And I also said previously that the corona model is indeed the best, because there is the choice between Box and SaaS. What becomes toxic, is when you remove this choice and go SaaS-only. You'll say that we would then be free to switch package, that's right in theory, but... again, is it that realistic in practice?
And yes, we are in a capitalist free market, where you are free to make your choices... in theory.
If you want to know more, there are a lot of contents explaining the bad consequences of capitalism (as well as communism lol, I won't develop because it is not the place, a good thing is that knowledge is available with internet now.
This has indeed a lot to do with capitalism, this is the law of the strongest, where greed is the motivation, the strongest takes the power, and this system drives him to eliminate anybody else and take a monopoly position, and then troubles begin.
Look at how multinational companies have taken monopolism over all sectors? Google, Microsoft, etc, and look at what results from their behavior.
One quick example that comes in my mind: are we free to use anything else but Windows on pc? In theory, there is linux, but in practice?
Are we free to use blender? Yes, of course, but realistically?
So, you can see that freedom "seems" to be there, when it actually isn't.
@keymaster
I saw you posted while I was writing.
No, I don't say that greed is "caused" by capitalism, of course not. Greed is a bad caracteristic of human being that he has to fight in order to live decently. There is indeed greed in every society, no doubt. But the problem with capitalism is that it encourages and feed greed! No matter who dies on its path. We could talk about the many branches of capitalism, like the debt system and IMF killing poor countries (and even western ones!), privatizations choking populations, etc, but again, that's not adequate here. :)
No, with capitalism, especially as we are seeing now, no, you won't see another render engine making you lower prices or steal your customers, but you'll see Autodesk coming to your door, buying corona and absorbing you, you'll only be a simple employee of this giant corporation running the corona departement, or you would have sold it to them, being left with nothing you "own".
This may have already occured in the past, and it will certainlly again; you resisted... but for how long? Capitalism business men beast are greedy and keep a watch on you.
All this to explain why sometimes I like to remind people about moral values and good behavior, even if the thread is cg related: to have a better life with our own consciences and with others in society. But this is another topic related to sociology and psychology which I won't develop here of course :)
