Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
> April 2007 release of "Why OSS/FS? Look at the Numbers!"
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> | Finally, I've released a new version of "Why Open Source Software /
> | Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, FOSS)? Look at the Numbers!" This paper
> | continues to provide "quantitative data that, in many cases, using
> | open source software / free software (abbreviated as OSS/FS, FLOSS,
> | or FOSS) is a reasonable or even superior approach to using their
> | proprietary competition according to various measures. This paper's
> | goal is to show that you should consider using OSS/FS when acquiring
> | software."
> `----
>
> http://www.dwheeler.com/blog/2007/04/12/#oss-why-20070412
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> This thing is huge.
>
> http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
This caught my eye:
"Indeed, to get less than 100% of the Windows applications to crash,
they had to change the conditions of the test so that certain test
patterns were not sent."
Windows: proven 100% unreliable technology.
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K.
http://slated.org
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| I found [Vista] to be a dangerously unstable operating system,
| which has caused me to lose data ... unfortunately this product
| is unfit for any user. - [H]ardOCP, <http://tinyurl.com/3bpfs2>
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