It's like everything in history held high and sacred by closed few: when the information propriety gate opens, the features and information once considered "crowned jewels" by those entities become commodity.
To say the community doesn't have the capacity to provide and exceed the expectation of users for a particular system means still not yet learning the lesson of the free and open source revolution Biggies like Microsoft thought something like a hobby system wouldn't be a threat to their bread and butter, until as Mr. Serrano said, it's a sudden death. On 10/2/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/2/07, Rogelio Serrano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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. > > > > And i realize that human beings learn new stuff everyday and the cheap > eyeballs gradually become expert cheap eyeballs. > > -- > 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 > -- Tito Mari Francis H. Escaño Computer Engineer and Free Software Proponent _________________________________________________ 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
