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I'm a student,

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This explains everything. Once you get some experience with real life software development, you'll see why people are willing to pay for software rather than writing it themselves.

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It seems you don't know enough about 'real life' software development, because if your views made any sense you would be able to back them up by the failure of the open source movement which is, to say the least... simply not failing.

Maybe I should write it just for myself and any collaborators since it seems to be in the spirit of poker that everyone should have to pay, forget the generosity and positives of open sourcing the code. Actually, I could do that, and I would be limited to what I could personally implement. Poker tracker is limited by a team of developers, that also will undoubtedly not be around forever to support paying customers and changes. If this type of thing was open and learned by even a few people, the software would be able to continue to thrive. I am done trying to explain this to you guys, maybe one of the supporters could point me in the direction of a software forum that has a poker discussion where people will just mind their own business if they find a project a waste of time? I'm pretty sure I could find a thousand projects online that I would consider less than worthwhile, should I have a problem with them being developed? Should I be writing in to the authors critically second guessing their desire to learn through coding? You must be real involved with software development, sounds like a very 'Microsoft' way of thinking, what do you have against open source? Many of the things you take for granted on today's internet would not be possible if not for the work of volunteer programmers.

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Whats with all the hostility here? The software forum is usually pretty chilled out so lets try and keep it that way! [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I think half the problem is that as soon as anybody tries to point out the flaws in PT then everybody jumps in and starts trying to praise PT: Yes PT might have good support, but if the guy who wrote it has made > $500k from it then I'd expect nothing less tbo (the $500k figure comes from somebody's estimate taken from the number of registered 2+2ers and the number of registered users in the PT forums - it could be MUCH more...).

PT basically has no real competition, and I don't think anybody can deny that monopolies lead to stagnation: why bother improving anything if you can just sit back and print off the $'s with the same old thing year in year out?

I'm first to agree that something much better (and significantly faster) than PT could be created and open sourcing it seems an obvious way to encourage others to participate.

There are lots of people here who go out of their way to help others and to also provide free software/scripts for players to use and I'm sure if you create the framework you are talking about then others here will contribute what they can. Sadly, I'm not all that hopeful as there seems to be have been so many dead PT-clone projects already which haven't really made it past the planning stage.

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