On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:39 PM, Selvakumar Rajeswaran <selva_...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > All the above scenarios are just plain depiction without adequate parametric > quantification, as such scenarios usually happen in both FOSS projects and > non-FOSS projects as they are intrinsic in any development process. > Any system is said to have good maintenability if its maintenance requirement > is nearly-zero ie, maintenance-free (or atleast to the practicaly minimum > possible extent). So, FOSS obviously doesn't qualify to have a good > maintenability (as wherever we turn our heads we hear about bug-fixing in > FOSS). >
Hmm.. FOSS is all about maitainers.. No owners.. But We have thousands of mainteners maintaining each and every software that comes with a Standard distribution.. Its not a easy job.. The amount effort that goes into it.. to make maintaining an art by itself.. what do think rpm and deb are all about? -- Regards, Sri Ramadoss M _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email ilugc-requ...@ae.iitm.ac.in with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
