I hate people.

arrrrrrrrrrrghhhhhhhhhh!

Who buys webapps in this day and age?!

That's a serious question because I could use about three million pounds.

Why does one divisive, officious prick insist on pissing on everything? Get. A. Fucking. Life. And. Move. On. It's not my fault if I launched something that's been really successful that would have made you look great if you'd done it. You didn't. No one wants to work with you. You're an ass. Realise that and stop trying to destroy my hard work. Stop trying to classify Wordpress and vBulletin as "free software that could be unstable and full of viruses and shouldn't be used". Don't get involved in things you don't understand. You absolute, utter, cock.

Man, until you said that thing about Wordpress, I thought you were talking to me.

I like Wordpress.

Why don't you just sit down and get some work done rather than surfing the net all day? I cannot finish this proposal that's due TODAY until you do your wee little bitty part. It's due at 3:00. You'll give me your edits at about 1:30 (if I'm lucky) and expect me to make all the changes and get it bound and delivered to make the deadline. I bugged you about it Monday, Tuesday, yesterday; and, gave you an ultimatum when you left yesterday that this HAD to be done early in the day today.

ummm, does my "kick me" sign make my butt look big?

Me too. Apparently many people still haven't heard of really good freeware. Stuff that's stable, reliable, patched, used by hundreds of thousands of people. Apparently if you need a stable, reliable package you need to employ people like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc, etc into the business. Because everything else is, apparently, not up to scratch.

chrismear - go get a job with "the man". You'll earn money and everything!

Yeah, but I wouldn't be able to start drinking at 10 a.m. on a Thursday.

That's another reason why you need to get a "man" job!

To afford the wine, you mean? Interesting.

Wine, clothes, food, that kind of thing. If you want to commute to Kent, there's jobs in my company. If anything comes up in London, I'll let you know, too. Srsly.

Who buys webapps in this day and age?!

I was mystified as well, especially since the app itself isn't really an original business idea, and isn't technically that impressive. But apparently they've built virtually the whole stack (except LightTPD) in this antiquated LISP-ish high-level language that allows for very rapid development and has some really cool interactive in-session debugging tools. So I think the buyer is getting not just the product itself but also the chance to use the whole framework on their other properties.

Still, being a (dollar) millionaire before you're 20 is ridiculous. *grumble, grumble*

I get this same pang of jealousy seeing friends my age and younger owning their own home, settled down with kids and seemingly happy marriages. And I haven't even managed to complete a degree. Damn you people, getting everything I wanted so easily!

Little shits.

Yeah, one of my cousins played a minor role in the development of Google and now, since Google went public, is a multi-millionaire. He didn't even invite me to his wedding, the bastard.

/sour grapes

Me too. Apparently many people still haven't heard of really good freeware. Stuff that's stable, reliable, patched, used by hundreds of thousands of people. Apparently if you need a stable, reliable package you need to employ people like Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc, etc into the business. Because everything else is, apparently, not up to scratch.

I had this discussion at work this week. We need something to help with scheduling our jobs and, apparently, something is on the pipeline that is being written with an oracle database and a Java front-end to be tagged onto some MS product or other (by the same team that, over the past two years, spent over $1m developing a product that, in the end, could be neither implemented nor fixed) when it could very easily be knocked up in a week using php and SQL and run off a cheap hosting package. But no, we have to spend huge dollars developing something complex and testing it to make sure it plays nice with every combination of systems that exist in our huge network. I did manage to get the small concession that when the system underdevelopment fails, we will be daring and go outside the organisation (MeFi jobs is my plan) and get someone to just do it. It's a small, but significant victory.

Also, I went to a friend of mine many years ago with a concept for some software (and funding to get development started) which he sold for just over a million dollars a few years later and I didn't get so much as a "thanks for setting me on the road to mega-riches dude, I owe you one".

Prick.

"Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies." -- Gore Vidal.

I'm a fucking city of undead little somethings at this point, then. I find that a mixture of self-loathing combined with taking advantage of the successful person works wonders.