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Story: Open source developers provide 'glimmer of hope'
Posted by: dukeinlondon (Sunday 24 April 2005, 8:23 PM)
Very simple but very true : pressure to deliver drives quality down because users will usually stick to the first soft they get to use. I see that all the time in my industry (financial risk software). Still, the same problem will occurr if more open source developpers end up being commercially employed and motivated.
Open source suffers from being open source. You get to use plenty of software that is not ready, simply because the pull of new functionality drives a lot of people to upgrade to pre-release quality stuff. But when it's ready, it's ready.
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