Good point. All *other things being equal*, open source is better than closed source because of access to the code.
Regards, Dustin At 07:05 AM 4/11/2002 -0700, you wrote: >:) Good one. > >To address your question, John B., yes, M$ Windows >does suck. But why? Dustin has made a good argument >that open source software can be equally buggy, and >can be even more so. > >But here is the difference: we pay $$$ for M$ >software, and commercial software EULAs give us no >rights or recourse for buggy software. Open source >software is free, and if it is buggy, we have all the >rights to fix those bugs. > >Sure, Linux/UNIX/etc geeks tend to harp that M$ >Windows is buggy and crashes, BSODs, etc. but the >truth is that Linux has bugs too. Granted, most of >those bugs do not bring the entire machine down, but >let's be generous and say that all software has bugs. >If so, then open source software is preferable, >exactly because it is open. > >John Hebert > >--- john beamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The Subject: header....? > > > > -- > > -j > > > > John Beamon > > > > On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > > > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:57:47 -0500 > > > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] windows sucks > > > > > > At 09:58 PM 4/10/2002 -0500, you wrote: > > > >Let me regroup and summarize, just to see if I'm > > following. > > > > > > > >...Does windows suck? > > > > > > What does that have to do with this thread of > > conversation? ;) > > > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > > > > > > > > > >-- > > > >-j > > > > > > > >John Beamon > > > > > > > >On Wed, 10 Apr 2002, Dustin Puryear wrote: > > > > > > > > > Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:16:16 -0500 > > > > > From: Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Subject: Re: [brluglist] windows sucks > > > > > > > > > > At 05:39 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > >Yes. > > > > > > > > > > How does writing open source software reduce > > the number of errors that you > > > > > introduce into code? In my view open source > > software only increases the > > > > > number of eyeballs that can spot those errors. > > > > > > > > > > Regards, Dustin > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >John Hebert > > > > > > > > > > > >--- Dustin Puryear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > At 03:25 PM 4/10/2002 -0700, you wrote: > > > > > > > >Sounds like a combination of problems. > > But, when it > > > > > > > >comes to tracking down problems, I > > _always_ suspect > > > > > > > >software, not hardware, first. Software > > is just > > > > > > > easier > > > > > > > >to screw up, especially on a closed > > source > > > > > > > operating > > > > > > > >system. Now, it may be that the hardware > > in the > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Do you think closed software is easier to > > "screw up" > > > > > > > or simply more > > > > > > > difficult to fix? 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