On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:24:20 +0100, Orchid XP v8 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.

The thing that's superior about OSS over proprietary is that because the 
code is released, *if* you have the skills, you can fix it yourself.  
I'll grant that's a big "if".

You can't do that (by definition) with closed-source software.

Jim

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