I really like open source. I use a lot of open source tools to develop software in my free time. And I write open source software on my own, and release
it for free. But IMO there are some tools which are a lot better than any of the open source competitors, like Visual Studio. (Going to buy the next version as soon as it will be available in the next weeks.) And now it looks like I'll start using a commercial diff tool for open source development. I don't know if it is because I am now used to it or just because it is better. But currently I feel like the alternatives like KDiff3 or WinMerge really suck. Example: Comparing between
Irrlicht-Spintz and
Irrlicht is such a pain with these open source programs, so I just downloaded
DiffDog and I got the differences how I needed them: