On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:19:44 PDT
"Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which is not to say that the not-quite-anarchy of some open-source
> projects might not produce results _faster_. I think that just moves
> some of the problems out to the whole separate layer of distro
> maintainers though, so that there's someone to make sure that
> everything more or less all works together.
Isn't that the MS model, except they spell "distro maintainer"
"system vendor"?
A system that makes life good for ISVs (a desirable thing) is not
necessarily one that encourages a flourishing ecology of FOSS software
(also a desirable thing). The BSD systems - including Apple - are the
ones that seem to do the latter best, though Apple is the only one
that also manages to provide a system that really has ISVs.
<mike
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