On 10/2/07, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
I dont think so. I never bet against anything cheap and in large numbers. > 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. And actually be fixed someday. Not all closed source projects dont suck. Most of them do and they die a sudden death. Closed source products need market share. When they dont get it they die. Open source dont need market share. They survive longer and eventually get fixed if somebody finds it useful. And only well written code can survive that long. > _________________________________________________ > 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 > -- Lay low and nourish in obscurity _________________________________________________ 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
