Hi,
El 25/05/09 08:15, Edward K. Ream escribió:
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 3:03 PM, Jesse Aldridge
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
This may be heresy, but I'd say that at this point in time closed
source programs are generally higher
quality than open source (with some exceptions).
The quality of management and the availability of programming
resources determine software quality.
It is dubious to assert that open source systems are inherently higher
quality than closed source. Or vice versa. Imo, the arguments in "The
cathedral and the bazaar" (like many other internet manifestos) are
unconvincing.
You could try some other lectures with a lesser manifest style that make
this point (or related ones), for example from game theory. One of my
favourites is
* The Architecture of Participation: Does Code Architecture Mitigate
Free Riding in the Open Source Development Model? by Carliss Y. Baldwin*
Kim B. Clark+ Harvard Business School
http://www.people.hbs.edu/cbaldwin/DR2/BaldwinArchPartAll.pdf
* Some more recent blogs have explored this idea in a more informal
fashion:
*
http://www.anshublog.com/2006/08/marc-fleury-game-theory-and-open-source.html
* http://newton.typepad.com/content/2007/03/i_have_been_pla.html
Cheers,
Offray
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