From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,4c2e8ba92f29718c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public Path: g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!wn12feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada open source References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:28:56 -0400 NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.96.223.163 X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1087835335 198.96.223.163 (Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:28:55 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 12:28:55 EDT Organization: Bell Sympatico Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1746 Date: 2004-06-21T12:28:56-04:00 List-Id: Brian May wrote: >>>>>>"Steve" == Steve writes: > Steve> Please cite a piece of closed source software that is > Steve> "feature complete" and bug free. ... > The way I read it: closed source is better then open source because > open source authors concentrate more on major development, bug fixes > and security fixes rather then adding small features. If so, aren't A big problem in many discussions of this type is this concept of "better". It's like friends/family of IT people that ask the ever annoying question: "What is the best PC that I can buy?" The answer of course is that "It depends!" I can think of many factors in favour of open sourced projects, and perhaps a few things in favour of shrink wrap. I could add what I like, you can state yours, but in the end, I don't think anyone here is going to have the all definitive answer. 8) -- Warren W. Gay VE3WWG http://home.cogeco.ca/~ve3wwg