>> 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.

Oh, sure, it also depends on what their movites are BTW. If they're 
*trying* to make a good product, they may have the means to do it very 
well. But, as Warp pointed out, sometimes they have other priorities...

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