Hello! Salvo Tomaselli has written on Saturday, 3 November, at 20:36: >> Linux/open source developers are usually not interested in fixing bugs if >> they cannot easily reproduce them. This problem plagues virtually all Open >> Source projects. >Well in proprietary software you are usually required to blindly purchase an >upgrade and hope that the bugs afflicting you have been fixed.
For proprietary software - users just "vote with legs" - i.e. select another software to pay their hard earned money for - so if you don't pay any attention to complains from customers who purchased your software you'll get no salary shortly (and be sure, users will spread words about bad bug fixing widely, they paid for it so they will be outraged). That is no case for open software as you still have no money from it, whether would you fix the bugs or not, therefore will someone use it beside you or not, it still will be for your own fun. That's the difference and I have to admit that is the truth. Despite the fact I'm open software developer myself. Cheers! Andriy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121103205445.gc19...@rep.kiev.ua