<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 03/02/2008, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kris Davidson</b> <<a href="mailto:davidson.kris@gmail.com">davidson.kris@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Tim mentioned 'The Cathedral and the Bazaar' by Eric S Raymond.<br>Completely off topic but It gets misrepresented alot, I'm sure the<br>points are applicable to Microsoft but at the time Eric was referring<br>
to Stallman and Free Software as the Cathedral with Open Source and<br>himself being the Bazaar.<br><br>Kris</blockquote><div><br>I agree and i have to find myself partly gulty of casting the image on ms but to be fair the structures and the points mentioned mostly apply to ms aswell.<br>
but what i was really refereing to was (on my version page 32) The cost of maintaing a program is 40% or more of the cost of developing it and this strongly depends on the number of users. more users find more bug.<br>this i thought was a major argumnet point not nessecarly in favour of Linux (since its user base has not yet reached that of ms platforms) but towards the idea of comparing the two OS's.<br>
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