----- Original Message ----- From: "David Jackson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 8:38 PM Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Re: open source: truthfully adverstised
> From a purely capitalistic viewpoint, I wish that commercial > applications would be held to a higher standard. But it simply isn't true > (ergo, I am agreeing with you). > But that's a huge benefit of open source - almost invariably the > developers of the application are in touch with the users of that > application, and gain immediate first-hand feedback. This is largely I disagree. The majority of open source projects are very small and tend to focus on the needs of the developer rather than other users. I would agree if you said "the huge benefit of most large, successful open source" projects.
