"Patrick R. Michaud" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I didn't realize that closed-source projects were any better in this
> regard.  If you have a feature that you want added to a closed-sourced
> product, does it occur any quicker than with open source ones?

If we're talking about bug-free new features, customer support and 
documentation yes my experience is much better with "closed-sourced" 
commercial products. As already said before, I admit that there are (many) 
exceptions to that rule. That's why I'm using FreeBSD, Apache, Postfix and 
of course pmwiki.

> How many years was it until Microsoft Vista was released?  Are all of
> the promised features present?  Does Vista have any unfixed bugs in it?

First I don't like Vista but that's not the case. However, I wouldn't 
compare an OS with tens of millions lines of c/asm code with simple 
opensource projects. Btw Vista was developed in less time than Perl6, linux 
kernel v2, xWin X11 etc...

> Some features just take a while to develop properly... this is true
> regardless of whether a product is open source or closed source, if it's
> being developed by volunteers or paid employees, and whether it's
> available without cost or purchased.

Agreed.

Athan



_______________________________________________
pmwiki-users mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.pmichaud.com/mailman/listinfo/pmwiki-users

Reply via email to