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From: "Chad R. Meiners" <crmeiners@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 15:28:22 -0400
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"Preben Randhol" <randhol+abuse@pvv.org> wrote in message
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> Chad R. Meiners wrote:
> > Some software out there is at a higher level.  See MULTOS
> > (http://www.sparkada.com/publications.html)
> >
> > I agree that quality is very important in software.  I also think
quality is
> > very important to people's arguments.
>
> I have never said all software should be Open source or free in some
> way.

I never thought that you did ;-)

> I guess most corporate software won't and shouldn't. What I'm
> saying is that I don't see why John Doe should be milked so that Billy
> the Goat gets fatter and fatter from his poor software. He and others
> need a incentive to make something better to stay in business.

I agree that without competition certain companies, corporations, and
individuals have produced poor software.  One of the reasons I like GNU
software is that it provides a constant pressure on everybody to produce.  I
don't think that John Doe is getting 'milked'.  New revisions of OS are like
new revisions of text books.  John Doe buys a version of the text book and
gets a list of errata for corrections.  Same with OS's.  Renting OS's,
however, would be annoying.

> To offer
> better support for the software. So much time out of the working day is
> wasted with different problems or errors in the software to keep other
> from being effective in their work.

Yes, I understand, but such is life.  Not even GNU software is immune to
such things :(