[Gllug] "Open source has its own problems" - article in Computing

[Gerard van Schip]

Rob Crowther wrote:

> Intellectual Property - he states that all work done when in full time 
> employment, whether at work or at home on personal time, is property 
> of the employer, the natural conclusion of this is that most OSS is 
> actually stolen from people's employers.

I think stolen is a strong word but it does make you wonder about coding 
done in company time. Having said that, the company uses OSS which is 
free. Is coding in company time on OSS and feeding that back into the 
OSS community not a nice way of paying for the software you use?

> Conceptual integrity - good software needs a single designer with a 
> clear vision, and this can't happen with OSS

I reckon OSS development is done by a single designer... entity. Like a 
hive mind, design via democracy.

> Professionalism - he likens the OSS movement to the games industry of 
> the early 1980s, where apparently bedroom coders produced really bad 
> games which nearly ruined the whole industry

Wooooo, he for real? Almost ALL major players in the gaming world where 
started in bedrooms coding on C64's Amigas, Species etc

> Innovation - OSS is mostly just rip offs of proprietary software

there is nothing original out under the sun, everything is inspired by 
something else, it's nature.


Thanks for sharing that Rob, good thing that guy did not stick it 
online, he would be flamed.

Gerard
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