On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 10:12 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Likewise, at Pycon 2008 I saw a leader of one of 2 big competing web > frameworks > (in a crowded room during his talk!) admit certain failings about his side. > I > remember thinking, "How is this helping
Look how far dishonesty has gotten closed source companies: disillusioned customers, computing apathy on the part of users, nobody trusts the vendor, a customer would just as soon drop your product if something shinier comes along. With honesty, an open source developer can enlist the support of the userbase. They can either chip in on fixing the problem or learn ways of dealing with it because there's an open discussion about it. If you admit the failings of your product, and someone needs to go with an alternate product they can still refer people to your software if their needs don't intersect the failing. I've wondered the same question at times, but I think the answer is pretty clear. Dishonesty is divisive and self-defeating. -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
