Hello Charles, Monday, September 22, 2003, 1:58:50 PM, you wrote:
CA> You haven't specified any numbers but based on your information you feel CA> that opensource can put more men on the job? Yes. Open Source is 'projects without boundaries', and cannot be quantified with specific figures, because there is no-one in a position to do the counting. The source code is freely distributed from project inception at places like FreshMeat and SourceForge, ad infinitum, and is distributed with every install, source only, or binary, as in the case of pre-packaged distros, like Red Hat, SuSe, and Mandrake. Anyone can peruse the code at any time, and they are not required to 'report back' to the distro which provided the code, when they do so. The code can then be used in any way, shape, form, or non-related project, in whole or in part, as long as the Open Source licence it was published under, is not violated in the process. Under such circumstances, the only means to assess, is to guess. My guess is, that a global enterprise, that is giving away free source code to anyone who wants to play with it, has the numbers edge over a closed source operation, that pays their workers a lot of money, but demands secrecy from them... even from one module to the next, in the same project. If you choose to guess in the other direction... no problemo. CA> I am prepared to enjoy whatever opensource can produce without the need CA> to canonize opensource. I am also prepared to enjoy commercial software CA> without prejudice. I said as much in my initial post, if you were paying attention, in the paragraph where I said that I had no intention of abandoning my Win98se box. -wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/ -weblog http://radio.weblogs.com/0128450/ A business is as honest as its advertising. . To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
