[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Friday 05 January 2001 01:36, Mark Sires wrote:
>
> > the price reflects it! Anybody who tells you quality doesn't cost is full
> > of baloney - if it didn't a Mercedes would be cheaper than a Yugo.
> > Mark
>
> Now, now,... isn't this an open source forum? You should thus know better.
>
> (Debian) Linux IS a quality "product", and as it is absolutely free, it is
> certainly cheaper than M$Windows which lacks a lot in OS qualities such as
> reliability and stability. PostgreSQL is a quality data base system and
> free, M$Access is just a useless toy that costs a lot more (than nothing as
> PostgreSQL).
>
> See? Quality and price may correlate sometimes -
...
> No, price is no guarantee for quality, nor does a cheap or free system imply
> lack of quality.
Not to disagree, but to expand the concept: open source software is the most costly --
not in price to acquire the code, but its cost is in time and effort that developers
have put
into it; and the "fee" for use is donating back to the community time and effort in
bug reports, feedback, code modifications, documentation and so on. Quality does
cost, and free
software is quality.
DJ :)
