As a general rule, I don't pay for command line utilities.
Thank goodness it's only you. I made a decent living writing database archiving tools as CLI utilities because the vendor supplied GUIs weren't scriptable.
Thank goodness it's only you. I made a decent living writing database archiving tools as CLI utilities because the vendor supplied GUIs weren't scriptable.
How many gun owners do you know? I know a bunch. They're an odd group, insomuch as they are not as simple to peg as some might think.
Sure, some are Dukes of Hazzard beer swilln' hicks, but others are top-grade software developers, teachers, and engineers.
I'm skeptical about selling CLI apps in general, but I don't think it's made any better or worse when targeting gun owners.
(To the original poster: go grab JRuby and Monkeybars and bang out a cross-platform GUI version!)
Who was offended? Not me. I'm pointing out a false view of gun owners. If Peter had in fact said "people completely at random" or "but they're not geeks", that would haven fine.
But emphasizing gun ownership as if it were particularly relevant (e.g., they are more likely than people completely at random to have trouble with the CLI) is bogus.
Oh, and quit being touchy. :)
Most likely the potential customers buying the app he built are people who don't know what a command line is.