On Feb 14, 6:22 pm, Mohit Singh <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 6:41 PM, Parin Sharma <[email protected]> wrote: > > Understanding Free Software v/s Proprietary Software with an Analogy !! > > Sorry to disturb your valentine fever with FOSS, but the rosy picture > of FOSS is already over by now. > > The service issues are MOST crucial for FOSS and we need to address > them. Many many nice FOSS projects died because there was nobody to > maintain them after the original developers left the project.
And many FOSS projects have become defacto standards in several verticals with blooming communities and several companies around those softwares... Oracle has not taken troubles for enjoyment to acquire MySQL. The number of dead and failed open source projects is far lower than the rates in closed sourced world. But those numbers never come out in public, where as data for open source projects is available publically. So which rosy picture is over ? regards Vivek -- l...@iitd - http://tinyurl.com/ycueutm
