Amazingly, guns are not the solution to every problem, despite what the NRA has told you.
No, sometimes explosives are the right tool for the job.
if they are the first out of the gate they will get the most customers if they actually follow through with their changes. They really have nothing to lose and everything to gain by giving the customer the features that are requested the most.
If these guys really wanted more customers they wouldn't have quoted me a price of nearly $3000 to run cable less than 1 block to my house. (which would potentially get up to 5 of my neighbors as customers as well.)
As long as they don't replace it with Erlang, because then it would just be LAME.
What does web development have to do with MP3 encoding?
What's wrong with having placebos? Placebos work.
Placebos are an excellent treatment for hypochondria.
There are patent issues with every technology.
there are no patents on C++ and even if there were they would have expired by now.
None of which will prevent some unscrupulous parties from patenting decades-old technologies with our wonderful approve-happy patent office meaning you can spend a shitload of money licensing bogus patents or several shitloads of money fighting it in court.
Real Programmers don't eat quiche. They eat Twinkies and Szechwan food.