I, respectfully, beg to differ and contend the open source community produces the most awesome products. Why? Because the price is right and lots of eyes scrutinize the source code such that no one inserts a program that sends marketing information back to the source.
Isn't Apache still the dominate leader in the web server market? It might not have the slickest GUI yet is, nonetheless, a truly awesome product. On the tech support, I changed my business model and now charge for free support to purposely price my self out of that market. Let the folks that wait until things break instead of performing proactive maintenance go elsewhere regardless of their OS. Regards, Jim Jim Ray, President Neuse River Networks tel: 919-838-1672 cell: 919-606-1772 http://www.Neuse.Net [Jim Ray pontificates] snip > With a few notable exceptions, the open source community fails to > produce truly awesome products. Part of the problem is the "scratch > an itch" basis upon which open source projects often come into being > and the Unixy "do one thing well" approach. It's fine that the sort > command doesn't read my mail or tell me what time it is, but that's > just why it's no fertile garden for innovation. [Jim Ray pontificates] snip > When it comes to being tech support for friends and family, I teach a > man to fish. I don't have time to fish for them and I already > volunteer with Linux. OS has nothing to do with it. > > > -- > Matt Frye > http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattfrye -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
