John Andersen wrote:
But Open Source should not have these problems.
That's why its open. Anybody can pick it up and maintain
it.
It still has the advantage that there isn't abandonware and
cemeteryware, i.e. products that are dead /and/ buried. These projects
can be picked up, whilst closed source cannot (without vendor
intervention: interesting that Qualcomm seem to be open-sourcing Eudora
to create a kind of hybrid with Mozilla's Thunderbird and that Google
persuaded HP to open the source of Tesseract OCR ).
Also, people are free to raise funds to pay a developer (a bounty) if
they really want a feature. Free software is simply liberated: like all
software, it costs money to maintain and configure. One can try to
externalise that, or one can embrace it. We all benefit as a result if so.
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