2012/5/13 andy pugh <bodge...@gmail.com>: > On 13 May 2012 20:34, Viesturs Lācis <viesturs.la...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> which means that nobody owns >> it and thus there is nobody to hold responsible for something. That is >> the only drawback of opensource I have seen so far. > > You can sell this as a feature, in some ways. If there is a problem > then _any_ programmer they hire can fix it, and that will be true for > ever.
Yes, definitely! There are some more selling points on being opensource: 1) they can not only fix something, but also adjust/improve anything any time; 2) hundreds of people have invested their time and effort in this software, which means that collective wisdom in this software can match products of very large software companies with tens and hundreds of employees. This ensures that it works correctly and exactly how machinist in the shop needs it to be rather than how few people, sitting in office, imagines the way, things _should_ happen, and that total number of features and capabilities of the application beats to dust majority of commercial CNC controllers and it can compete with the market leaders in this context. Viesturs If you can't fix it, you don't own it. http://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
