On Wed, September 21, 2005 7:35 am, keithleng said:
> The truth of the matter is that the squeezebox software is, and always
> has been, very flakey. It is largely written by enthusiastic amateurs,
> and it shows.
Well, this is one way to make those enthusiastic "amateurs" a lot less
enthusiastic. You really should make sure to understand open source
before making such statements. For one, most of those "amateur"
contributors are actually professional software developers (like myself)
who happen to be passionate about software development. In fact, it is
often the case that developers who contribute to open source are really
the cream of the crop, because of that very enthusiasm you mention.
Furthermore, it has been shown in some studies that open source code
generally has fewer bugs (i.e. higher quality) than "professional"
commercial code.
None if this is to say that SlimServer is perfect or bug free, but your
comment "It is largely written by enthusiastic amateurs, and it shows."
smacks of insult and of ignorance of how open source development and
software development in general really works. I'll take those
enthusiastic "amateurs" over the supposed "professionals" I've worked with
over the years any day.
--
Jason Voegele
"There is an essential core at the center of each man and woman that
remains unaltered no matter how life's externals may be transformed
or recombined. But it's smaller than we think."
-- Gene Wolfe, The Book of the Long Sun
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