On 10/6/06, Rafael 'Dido' Sevilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Orlando Andico wrote:
> most "famous" open-source software clusters in the "above average" area.
> But the top rankers are all closed source.
Is there any Open Source/Free Software that has the same kind of
reliability requirements as these proprietary software that is in the
top? Probably none, I imagine. Nobody writes Free Software to run
nuclear power plants or for the control systems for jet engines, so this
isn't really surprising. Comparing Free and Proprietary software with
similar reliability requirements (e.g. none) might be more realistic.
The software developers behind those programs have got massive economic
incentive to have absolutely reliable software, while the same incentive
is absent from nearly all Free Software out there, so this observation
isn't exactly surprising.
By the way, how did Donald Knuth's TeX score there, I wonder?
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