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Like Kaspersky, parallels is Russian software and on the list of "domestic" software by the Russian government. Parallels has been erasing references to its Russian roots since the hackergate began. Trying to avoid Kaspersky fate and escape sanctions and bans especially when US federal funding is involved? It is not clear who is buying what in this case.
Just wait until the Americans figure out that JetBrains is basically soviet technology!
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One of the first Linux distributions I tried (after the venerable Slackware) was the short-lived Corel Linux way back in 1999 or thereabouts.
About that time every company and its dog was trying to push in the commercial Linux distribution space, trying to get a piece of the sweet pie that Redhat was eating. They were also bundling/selling Wordperfect Office for Linux at that time, since the only real competitor on Linux was StarOffice which later purchased by Sun and open sourced - and later because of the acquisition by Oracle, was forked into LibreOffic…
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VA Linux is often forgotten too. Due to Linux in the name, and even a sexy ticker symbol, rose a crazy 700% for those in on the initial offer price. And there were a lot of those people because they added everyone who had their names on any software included in their Linux distribution. Myself thankfully included.
Well, this outfit sounds much more impressive than the vague prospects of Corel's Linux offering: > Geeknet, Inc. owns the online retailer ThinkGeek and is a subsidiary of GameStop. The company was formerly known as VA Research, VA Linux Systems, VA Software, and SourceForge, Inc. > VA Research was one of the first vendors to build and sell personal computer systems installed with the Linux operating system, as an al…
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It's where programs go to die. Corel today is what Computer Associates was twenty years ago.
Took the words right out of my stdin. Had I not caught your comment out of the corner of my eye, I was about to post word-for-word the same. It worked for CA for a while, and then...it didn't? I'd have to go look up what happened to them, because they one day just weren't on my radar anymore.
Don't you mean stdout?
Like Kaspersky, parallels is Russian software and on the list of "domestic" software by the Russian government. Parallels has been erasing references to its Russian roots since the hackergate began. Trying to avoid Kaspersky fate and escape sanctions and bans especially when US federal funding is involved? It is not clear who is buying what in this case.
Please don't use! Also don't use any JetBrains products (including Kotlin). Otherwise Commies will come and hack your brain.
Unfortunately C++, on which a lot is written, is also poisoned without hope of cleaning by STL.
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Took the words right out of my stdin. Had I not caught your comment out of the corner of my eye, I was about to post word-for-word the same. It worked for CA for a while, and then...it didn't? I'd have to go look up what happened to them, because they one day just weren't on my radar anymore.
> Took the words right out of my stdin. Don't you mean stdout?
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The company I currently work for does something similar. Latest version costs money, previous version gets given away with hardware, and version before that is free. However, we are going to transition to latest version costs money and two feature set reduced versions gets given with hardware and free. Having 3 versions to support is too much overhead for a small company. And giving away old versions of our products…
What's the rationale behind the current model? From a business perspective, the older versions are used by older or larger companies that couldn't or didn't want to upgrade, they have money to shell out and should be charged more.
The idea is to grow the user base as large as possible and then sell them the latest version or other products.
Give away a version with 3rd party hardware is to grow the user base to new markets. Let somebody else handle the marketing / distribution and get their users. Sure lots people throw away the CD of bundled software when they buy something, but a decent number still install it.
Give away free is same idea. People love free stuff and will download it. Then hopefully they enjoy it and upgrade to get more features.