> From: Chad Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: The Fool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > I also don't want to hear about how great Open Source is. Every open > > source > > > application I have used has been buggy, non-standard, and > > difficult to > > > manage. > > > > Try http://thangorodrim.angband.org > The wonderful net nanny at work restricts me from viewing that site. I > presume it is a game, since that is what triggered it? Netnanny? Yes. > Are you implying that Open source games that run on win32 can behave well? I > would partially agree, but only because they typically use graphic (OpenGL It's not graphic based (kinda). The code has been around since the early 80's, and came free with many unix's, and runs pretty much on every platform, from VMS, to super-computers, to mainframes, to apple's, to *nix, to dos on xt to windows xxx, etc. > or DirectX) and game engine (Quake 3, Lithotech, etc) libraries that have > been comercially available. There a lot of Open Source Mods that are great, > but are not without being buggy and/or unstable. > A big exception to this is a open source program called NVMAX, which correct > many errors that NVIDIA won't correct with its drivers. > > > In fact many programs that were open source at one time but became > commercial were buggy at one time. Once real money was spent on the product > do they usually attain the same stability.
