<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Bernardo Barros <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bernardobarros2@gmail.com">bernardobarros2@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
2010/7/28, Louigi Verona <<a href="mailto:louigi.verona@gmail.com">louigi.verona@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
<div class="im">> "Different funding strategies" is vague. I think that Linux would have lots<br>
> and<br>
> lots of cool stable apps if those "funding strategies" were obvious. But<br>
> they<br>
> are not.<br>
<br>
</div>They aren't indeed. Linux kernel is doing well with really big<br>
companies supporting it. Multimedia applications still did not find<br>
the best way, but they will. Donations from professionals and<br>
universities doing research between arts and computer science would be<br>
two options. All I said was to keep closed software away from<br>
gnu/linux. (But I think proprietary under free OS is better then<br>
proprietary software under proprietary OS, I don't know).<br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>Who knows. Proprietary under free OS might be better indeed than under<br>proprietary OS. I am just wondering lately whether open source model of<br>development and/or environment of free and voluntary developers is at all<br>
capable of delivering robust, stable and professional level apps. I am not saying<br>that it is not possible in question, but I am wondering whether it is possible on<br>a regular basis, since such apps are needed in many fields. And many things on<br>
GNU/Linux are either difficult or impossible to do today.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Louigi Verona<br><a href="http://www.louigiverona.ru/">http://www.louigiverona.ru/</a><br>