read this...... A very comprehensive analysis
Why Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS, FLOSS, or FOSS)?
Look at the Numbers!
http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html
cheers
Ivan
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:41 PM, sapran <sapran_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> The main goal of a software vendor is not to bring you a _good_
> product, but to sell it you. That is the only truth about that. That's
> why the product might be fully featured, nicely decorated and
> published on time: the vendor is economically motivated to make it
> this way. But there's no sense to make it secure and stable because
> the only motive for this is liability which does not exist software
> industry.
>
> There are two ways for things to become better. The first one is fully
> described by Bruce Schneier it his "Secrets and Lies", the top book to
> be read by all 'connected' folks. Its increasing of liability to the
> level of its presence in other industries, for ex. banking or plane
> building. And there is another, more utopic, to ignore the business
> motives during the process of software development.
>
> It may remind you the methods of decreasing of unemployment proposed
> by Marks: to remove market economy at all. But this is a topic to be
> thought out I guess, so your comments are welcome.
>
Received on May 09 2008
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