Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> I've heard lots of people try to claim directly or indirectly that OSS 
> is somehow automatically inherantly superior to proprietry software just 
> because it's OSS. Which, IMHO, is untrue.

  With superiority they don't necessarily mean stability. There are other
forms of superiority as well.

> For example, I've written libraries and released the source code. You 
> could claim that those libraries are therefore "open-source". So does 
> that mean they're better than any possible proprietry library? Uh... I 
> don't think so. :-/

  Better in what respect? There is more than one measurement by which one
can compare software.

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                                                          - Warp

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