On 10/17/2009 4:52 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
> 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

One of the disadvantages is that developers feel bugs are not as 
important because they expect that someone *with* the skills will 
eventually come along and fix it.

Mike

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