very very easy. to understand all this...
OK, lets see the simple example.
I have ATI card with x.org-7.1 drivers, nothing speciall - just poor BUT
stable 2D & 3D
I probably COULD use closed-source driver
BUT if my machine then will NOT work properly, I will achieve memory
leaks etc (past shows many examples..) what can I do ?
NOTHING. the only way is to use open-source drivers instead of
closed-source, see : it's OK now, and then say to ATI guys : hey, sth
wrong is in your drivers :P:P:P (and then I will have no answer or some
answers after some months..)
it's stupid to say : open source (as GPL, LGPL, FLOSS etc..) is not
necessary as we can just buy "open source" (but closed in fact)
software. because of - closed source is "IP" (intellectuall property -
watever this means, abstractive and poor words) and NOBODY exept the
owner CAN modify it, change etc.
then, as result, I have to BUY it every time I see new bug in software.
As I sale some software in my work, I can see it many times that ONLY
because of I work with right people - they play RIGHT on this market and
I CAN achieve the result as non-buggy-software sold only once, if
necessary upgraded a few times. but this is very speciall, not-so-wide
market of specialised solutions, B2B - and NOBODY can say "this is the
same as whole-sale" - I do mean "SOHO market" with hundreds thousands
buyers and hundreds of sellers
So - believe me, I will NEVER use closed source IF i have any
alternative software, even if the preformance of this closed-source is
about 150% of really OPEN source solutions. because of. I do NOT want to
argue this, just its my experience ;)
thats the DEBIAN way ;)) @ gentoo amd64station :) & @ gentoo list;)
On the other hand - in my opinion - B2B is completely another thing, and
sometimes there is NOT any other solution than closed-source or BINARY
software, but maintained && sold by RIGHT people, with full support &
many features which makes this way right.
regards,
Piotr
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