Max Moritz Sievers wrote: > P.B. wrote: > >> Due to its nature, development of FS is mainly distributed and thus >> requires discipline, schedules, good communication skills - and >> documentation (super-small projects like <5 people are an exception). >> Commercial software often lacks proper documentation for "inside" - How >> many times did I have to black-box debug in-house made apps? >> > > Free software *is* commercial. See: > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.html#commercialSoftware > oh. sorry. classic mistake. I actually meant "distributed" (usually FS) vs. "local & closed" (currently mostly commercial).
Since "commercial" exploitation of a project often leads to different development goals (even if free software), I've used "commercial" in this example. Of course I meant that proprietary, closed-source software. Pb _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@fsfeurope.org https://mail.fsfeurope.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion