I've had this conversation with a couple of OSS developers and the answers
always leave me very uncomfortable.
The problem is how does one live by OSS principals when essential tools are
vehemently closed and the barriers to replacements are decade scale and no one
is working on them?
The
Eric S. Johansson writes:
I've had this conversation with a couple of OSS developers and the answers
always leave me very uncomfortable.
The problem is how does one live by OSS principals when essential tools are
vehemently closed and the barriers to replacements are decade scale and
On 5/15/2010 8:59 PM, Tim Cross wrote:
Hi Eric,
the points you raise and your observations are all true, but I don't think
there is a good answer. What it really boils down to is that OSS is largely
about solutions that have been developed by users scratching their own itch.
Unfortunately,