Kevin's Blog

Friday, July 30, 2004

BlueGlue

OpenLogic makes a product called BlueGlue which sells for $200+ per seat (depending on your version). What does it do? It downloads and updates OPEN SOURCE projects for you!?! Talk about the ultimate in laziness. Certainly, they have taken the time to find a good set of programs, and their list of complete programs is an interesting checklist for any Java programmer, but to pay them to download it for you? That's just silly... half of the skills I have in programming have come from fooling around with freeware/open source programs and seeing what's out there. Experimentation is the only way to really learn. Why would I pay someone to take away the opportunity to experiement?