On 7/15/06, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 7/15/06, Dean Michael Berris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 7/15/06, manny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > "Souce available" doesn't necessarily mean that the source caa be
> > modified and that the resulting compiled binary can be redeployed.
> > Therefore, "source available" software does not necessarily "do the job"
> > as well as open source software. It lacks one of the very features that
> > makes open source software a powerful tool.
> >
>
> Okay, now I get it. But then again, it's a catch 22 -- if the software
> that does the job is not under any open source license, and the
> government will require all software to be used/acquired to be under
> an open source license, what will be done?
>
Write the whole thing under a open source license. If im the
government now, I will download something that does something similar
and i will modify it. It does not take much to create something that
meets my needs now. I think that your idea of software engineering is
totally different from mine. i dont try to guess what i will need
tomorrow and try to build it now. That only works for 20% of the time.
Write the whole thing under an open source license? How much will that
cost? Where will you find developers that will do this for free?
My idea of Software Engineering is making software that _works_. If it
solves your problems today, then you might have done enough for the
meantime -- but if the code you wrote is not easily extensible, nor
easily maintainable, nor is hard to use and released under an open
source license, how is that better than acquiring/using proprietary
source available software that _already meets your needs NOW_ ?
--
Dean Michael C. Berris
C/C++ Software Architect
Orange and Bronze Software Labs
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Email: dean [at] orangeandbronze [dot] com
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