Gilles Tran <gil### [at] gmailcom> wrote:

> news:4ada536f@news.povray.org...
> >  I did not touch the subject of *quality* in my post, nor do I in any way
> > claim that OSS would be in part with the best commercial software in many
> > fields.

> I was addressing the claim that "OSS is user-oriented, doing what benefits 
> the users the most.".

  Targetting your users rather than your own company doesn't say anything
about the quality of the software.

> To be frank, I have lost my time trying OSS. I push OSS when it's good, but 
> just too much of the stuff is alpha quality and in some cases I wished that 
> OSS folks had been more honest in stating that they were doing it for fun 
> without the pretense of creating a useful and working product. I'm wiser 
> now. At least marketing folks are paid to lie ;)

  Linux (or sometimes a BSD variant) and Apache are used in tons of web
servers out there (in fact, I think they are the majority). People can
have differing opinions about the quality of the Linux/Apache combo, but
you can't deny that many people have found it a working (and *free*)
solution.

  That's just one example.

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                                                          - Warp

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