2 Nov
2004
2 Nov
'04
8:03 p.m.
On 02 Nov 2004 18:36:41 -0600, Jack O'Quin <joq(a)io.com> wrote:
Mark Knecht <markknecht(a)gmail.com> writes:
And I'd say that in many cases you accomplish it. And there's no
comparison, absolutely no comparison, in terms of user's access to
developers and how fast ideas might get turned into reaslity. That is
wonderful in the OSS arena. So it's certainly not all bad.
However, I think this discussion has completely digressed from
anythigng approaching a discussion on standards.
LOL!! Quality Control in Linux software?!?! There
ain't no such
thing!! This stuff just gets pumped out by developers and user are the
quality control division.
Some of us try to do better. I've seen a study (in a recent ACM
Journal article) indicating that OSS is neither better nor worse than
proprietary code in this respect. It all depends on the quality of
the implementation and the skill of the developers. Testing remains
one of the least-understood aspects of the art of computer
programming.
Plenty of commercial developers release poorly-tested crap, too.
Oh, so true, so true...