> Sounds like you haven't had much development experience. > Thats how > programmers around the world code Free Software.
sure..thats how *everyone* codes...you mean to say that a closed source product has the same guys writing and maintaining the software? The point is, the company has *experts* on that product, and they are paid to just solve problems, which is not guranteed when u contact ur friendly-neighbourhood hacker. > Anyway... lets get your *closed* software in the picture > here. I want > someone else to better and maintain it now. Will you as a > previous vendor: > 1. Help me > 2. Give my new partner the sources > 3. Even if you do 1. and 2. what will my new partner get > help from the > community? No. because the community doesn't know - the > software was closed. again..why the emphasis on sources? As a IT Manager, I'd be more interested in getting the problem solved than in whether I have the sources or not.And secondly, do u think only open source software has communities? I've received fantastic help on some closed source products that I use from communities of users - so whats so special? I think your passion for source code is blinding you from the heart of the problem - source code is just not important in some cases! regards, kishor __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
