[SC.LUG] Interesting article in the Guardian

[David Holden]

On Thursday 08 Jan 2004 5:48 pm, Jason Lucas wrote:
> Food for thought:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,1117835,00.html
>
> Jason.
>

yeh I replied to this article as its demostrates another "tech" columnist who 
really does not get opensource/free software.


I mean what does this mean

"The open source movement currently has no way of developing independent 
software architectures, or even of performing simple usability testing. And 
it shows."

has he not heard of perl/python apache all of which there is nothing in the 
proprietry world that comes close to their capabilities.


He also states that all open source does is clone proprietry software. well 
this is true to a certain extent but there is a reason for this and it stems 
from the initial motivation of free software which was to develop open 
source/free software equivalents of closed source systems that gives the user 
the freedom to "modify, improve, learn from and share their 
improved software" (quoting Richard S.).
 
  Dave.




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