Let's talk about "Open Source killing commercial development tools"

Today, solidot saw an interesting short article titled "Open Source killing commercial development tools", which is as follows:

Una, derived from the Latin adjective "together", is a collaborative real-time source code development environment that allows two or more developers to edit the same code at the same time. Supports most popular programming languages, such as Ada, C, COBOL, C ++, C #, CSS, Erlang, Haskell, and JavaScript, LISP, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Ruby, SQL, and visualbasi. Una is a commercial development tool, but now its personal version has just announced free distribution a few days ago. John de goes, president of N-BRAIN and founder of UNA, complained, "the development tool market is dead and open source kills it ". In an interview, he explained the impact of open-source occupation of the developer tool market and how this forced the company to launch a free version of Una. De goes said that selling a source code editor, even a great one, is becoming increasingly difficult in the Post-open-source era. N-BRAIN was not the first to do so, and enerjy, another tool company, also recently announced a free release of their previous commercial development tools.

This is a bit of a joke: John de goes claims that "selling a source code editor, even a very good one, is becoming unfeasible in the Post-open-source era"-but this is a time of competition, the only reason why his "very good" Source code editor cannot be sold is "not good enough ", in other words, the combination of its price and "great" has no advantage, not for other reasons.

Of course, we should allow frustrated people to complain.

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