At my previous job the company owner was surprised JetBrains dared to ask for money to use their IDEs.
When I asked for the company to pay for the license I'll use (only) while I work there I was rejected in a terrible way. It felt like my superiors were screaming "why the hell can't you use notepad, you lazy developer... Why do we even pay you?".
Again, I'm talking about IDE I thought it would be the best choice for me to develop the code my boss requested.
(for what is worth, I ended up buying my own license from my first salary and then resigned).
My point is that some companies can't even understand why some tools cost money, let alone the hard work, sacrifices, time, money and all the rest open source devs put up to produce those beautiful lines of code... (all code is beautiful, regardless if it works or not.)
At my previous job the company owner was surprised JetBrains dared to ask for money to use their IDEs.
When I asked for the company to pay for the license I'll use (only) while I work there I was rejected in a terrible way. It felt like my superiors were screaming "why the hell can't you use notepad, you lazy developer... Why do we even pay you?".
Again, I'm talking about IDE I thought it would be the best choice for me to develop the code my boss requested.
(for what is worth, I ended up buying my own license from my first salary and then resigned).
My point is that some companies can't even understand why some tools cost money, let alone the hard work, sacrifices, time, money and all the rest open source devs put up to produce those beautiful lines of code... (all code is beautiful, regardless if it works or not.)
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