As for 'code completion' (Intellisense in VS), yes that has improved for ALL LANGUAGES, including C/C++, and is WONDERFUL. It makes VS the most superior IDE I've ever tried, by far. I would disagree that VS2008 is superior to VS2010 because of its dynamic help. I haven't missed it much, but that's just me. I did use it, and it was helpful though, so can understand that.

Therein lies the problem with the FOSS philosophy once a popular project reaches a certain level of maturity. Some key players suddenly decide to take the codebase - along with all the freely submitted contributions from unpaid volunteers - and sell it for large sums of money. MySQL is one example of that.

-40hz (July 06, 2012, 10:02 PM)

Yep. Seen it happen over and over again, and is why I don't do that much F/OSS these days. Some ahole always comes along, exploits the work for profit, and all the contributors who made it possible aren't compensated, nor could they be really... would be hard to figure out how to fairly compensate people. Meanwhile, F/OSS users demand more from F/OSS developers than most other developers - perhaps because they are more accessible, I dunno. I still do release open source work, but only with the full realization that its pure charity work. Even then, it's often stolen or abused.