Corollary to my previous rants. The main value proposition of Open Source as a development methodology (as opposed to a Philosophy) is Eric Raymond's tired mantra:
With enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow. The problem is -- what if you don't have enough eyeballs? a few highly-paid (closed-source) eyeballs are gonna be vastly more efficient than 100X as many cheap eyeballs. So if your problem domain is highly-specific (ex. cluster management/load balancing/HA/failover), it's very likely that your Open Source community will be small. And if it's small.. what it produces is likely to suck. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
