>>Moshe Goldfarb wrote:
>>FOSS like Linux kernel, *BSD kernel, Xorg, Apache, MySQL, Firefox,
>>and many many other FOSSs
>>are mostly developed by professional[s] paid to do so.
>>It takes good developers and time to make a quality product,
>>not necessarily money and definitely not just money.
>>
Amen.
Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>The Linux kernel, Xorg, Apache, MySQL, and Firefox
>are all made by companies where people are paid a good wage.
...but the *paid* thing can be independent of **quality**.
It's possible to have one, both, or neither.
The closed source "ethos" was shredded by Cringely in 2003:
http://google.com/search?q=cache:7babXMstAt0J:www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/getoldpulpit.cgir?f=/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031023.html+*-*-ought-*-*-*+not-*-map+*-*-*-*-an-art+misunderstanding+nonsense+*-*-shipped-*-*-*-*-*-*-*+*-Torvalds+read+announced+what-matters-*-*-*-*-*+read+*-*-*-*-*-*-a-success+*-*-*-pressure-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*+read+*-*-glib-*+*-*-didn't-say-*+*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-extend-*+all-*-rears-*-*-*-*-*-*+*-*-delivered+*-*-no-roadmap+If-C.*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*.*-*-*-*-*-*+improving&strip=1
http://tinyurl.com/MS-ViewOfOpenSourceHurtsUsAll
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/getoldpulpit.cgir?f=/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20031023.html
Trying to extend Big Software's paradigm to cover FOSS
is nonsense...and payware's mercenaries
*still* DON'T get fired for crap designs and buggy code.
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