[lbo-talk] Ubuntu stuff

[Matt]

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 05:25:14PM -0400, // ravi wrote:
> On Aug 17, 2009, at 4:54 PM, shag carpet bomb wrote:
> >
> > every FOSS booster has *got* to read dreaming in code. what you  
> > learn is that the very things FOSS is supposed to address (buggy  
> > code, lengthy release cycles, etc.) it isn't any better at doing  
> > than the proprietary, closed source approach.
> 
> 
> I am not sure these are the very things FOSS is supposed to address,  
> and it certainly need not be (in fact, I think this point may define  
> the split between Stallman and the _pragmatists_). BTW, its difficult  
> to compare these things... we do not have access to the source code or  
> raw bug report data of closed source software. This argument gets  
> rehashed every time some report or the other comes out (see:  
> Coverity's static code analysis of open source vs Boeing or whatever  
> they compared it to).
> 
> 
> > rosenberg follows the fate of an open source software project -  
> > chandler -- that seems like it ought to be an exemplar of open  
> > source development and its so-called advantages (with enough eyes,  
> > all bugs are shallow; etc.)
> 
> 
> Chandler is/was an OSAF project with backing (and funding) from Mitch  
> Kapor of Lotus 1-2-3 fame. That is not much of an exemplar of FOSS.  
> But of course a lot of FOSS projects fail. FOSS does not guarantee  
> success, nor does the lack of success of this or that FOSS project  
> negate [claims about] the nature of FOSS development.
> 
> I will try to give this book a shot,
> 
> 	--ravi
> 
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