On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 11:14:19AM -0400, wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:20:37AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> >
> > i'm not sure firefox is the example i'd want to use right now to
> > demonstrate open source's spectacular glory:
>
> I suggest that sqlite be used as an example instead of firefox.
I would have thought Apache would be an obvious example:
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/01/12/january-2011-web-server-survey-4.html
This is a situation where it is running on many Windows servers.
> It's install base easily outnumbers all applications that i can think
> of. For example, firefox uses it to manage some of it's data storage.
> So every firefox install is an installation of sqlite. Many other
> applications use sqlite for some form of data storage.
>
> It's also installed on almost every
> pda/cellphone/tablet/pvr/router/gadget/whizbang that has a list of
> data to track. This even includes every iPhone and iPod.
>
> see http://sqlite.org/famous.html for more examples
>
> This is a clear demonstration that open source software _CAN and DOES...
> 1: work well
> 2: plays well with others
> 3: runs on many platforms
> 4: is hugely popular (by count of installations. even if the user is unaware)
>
> I cannot think of any other project, open source, or closed, that
> comes even close to a tiny fraction of this level of achievement. I
> also seriously doubt that this achievement is simply not possible as a
> closed source implementation.
>
> Safe bet a significant majority of the folks who feel open source
> software is "crap" are unaware that they are most likely using many
> products of open source projects every day..
>
> -phil
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