2007/9/27, Graham Leggett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The idea that "it's free, what do you expect? quality?" undermines > confidence in both maven and open source in general, and this doesn't do > the maven project any favours at all.
Well in fact I think open source software has a higher level of quality when compared to proprietary software. Probably we all have seen proprietary code that is badly documented, written, engineered, etc. For example, I remember the story of Interbase DBMS (I can't find the link, sorry) when it was released as open source: the Firebird team had to fix 25000 compilation warnings! But think bigger: if you try to get docs from Oracle website, you will find almost nothing. If you want docs, you have to go to AskTom or some ".edu" websites :-( Antonio
