Well then, time to say a word i guess.
How does the fact that a topic like this can exist in this forum reflect on us as a development team, or
on the PureBasic community as a whole ?
In my opinion, the only ones making a fool of themselves here are those that ranted
around about issues that are none of their concern. As you can count in the thread
these were just a few people.
Quite frankly, if people generalize from that to the whole community, then
they live in a very small world of prejudice and i feel sorry for them.
There are dumb people everywhere. I bet there are even some in the Iconic Wind forums.
Now, does jumping around, deleting any topic that mentiones another procuct
in anyway solve this problem ? In my opinion it doesn't. We try to keep this
an open forum, only deleting stuff that really needs it.
I don't see why a few people making fools of themselfes is a reason to delete the thread.
If you cannot handle the fact that there are a few dumb people around, then you should stay off the internet
We do not forbid talk about other products here, because it is our opinion
that people should know their options so they can decide what product is best for them.
As Fred used to say: "I like competition."
If it comes down to plain advertisement, we will step in of course, but you
can hardly call this thread an advertisement.
I don't keep a close eye on whats going on over at Iconic Wind, so i welcomed
this piece of information. I also trust Kale to not post this with any bad
intentions in mind... after all, he just recently spent a lot of time and work writing a PureBasic book.
To the people participating in this thread: (specifically Trond)
If you have a specific problem with Iconic Wind Software, any of their
products or the way they do buisness, i suggest you go to their forum to discuss this.
You won't find any real experts on the subject here, and shouting around half-truths
on all side helps no one. Besides, it is really none of our buisness which
IDE or compiler of theirs shares sourcecode and which doesn't.
To anyone from the Iconic Wind forum reading this:
If this thread is the only thing you read on this forum then you know nothing
about our community. So i ask you to not judge PureBasic, this community,
and especially not us as a development team.
If you have something PureBasic related to discuss, come over
here and we can do so and you can form an opinion of your own.
I have posted this before, but there is just soo much truth to it...
Now, lets all get back to whichever language we like best and do something productive for a change, shall we ?
