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8 Oct 2024 20:53:28 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Open source software is always stable  
From: Eero Ahonen
Date: 18 Oct 2009 02:19:58
Message: <4adab38e$1@news.povray.org>
Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
> On the other hand, the number of people working on OSS software is
> usually determined by how "interesting" it is, whereas for CSS software
> it's determined by how much money the company has. If they have a
> crapload of money, they can quite possibly produce a better product than
> an OSS community could come up with, because they can just *hire* enough
> manpower to get the job done.
> 

There's also the part where you don't need to do quality code, when you
have enough money, big enough market share and not enough competition
(remember Windows ME?). So the amount of money that CSS publisher has
isn't purely indication of how good the code/software is.

-Aero


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