Comments on: Why OSS is higher quality software than proprietary http://matthewpetro.name/2009/07/12/why-oss-is-higher-quality-software-than-proprietary/ Social media, coffee and the urban growth of Phoenix Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:36:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Matthew Petro http://matthewpetro.name/2009/07/12/why-oss-is-higher-quality-software-than-proprietary/comment-page-1/#comment-84 Matthew Petro Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:51:12 +0000 http://matthewpetro.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-84 Thanks for commenting! You definitely bring up another point I hadn't considered...the evolutionary nature of open source development. Bad projects become abandoned fairly quickly, because there's no impetus for developers to keep working. This is the opposite of proprietary development, where companies will often spend huge amounts of resources to keep failing or low quality projects alive. Yet another reason open source tends to be better software. Thanks for commenting! You definitely bring up another point I hadn’t considered…the evolutionary nature of open source development. Bad projects become abandoned fairly quickly, because there’s no impetus for developers to keep working. This is the opposite of proprietary development, where companies will often spend huge amounts of resources to keep failing or low quality projects alive. Yet another reason open source tends to be better software.

]]> By: Matthew Petro http://matthewpetro.name/2009/07/12/why-oss-is-higher-quality-software-than-proprietary/comment-page-1/#comment-761 Matthew Petro Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:51:00 +0000 http://matthewpetro.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-761 Thanks for commenting! You definitely bring up another point I hadn't considered...the evolutionary nature of open source development. Bad projects become abandoned fairly quickly, because there's no impetus for developers to keep working. This is the opposite of proprietary development, where companies will often spend huge amounts of resources to keep failing or low quality projects alive. Yet another reason open source tends to be better software. Thanks for commenting! You definitely bring up another point I hadn’t considered…the evolutionary nature of open source development. Bad projects become abandoned fairly quickly, because there’s no impetus for developers to keep working. This is the opposite of proprietary development, where companies will often spend huge amounts of resources to keep failing or low quality projects alive. Yet another reason open source tends to be better software.

]]> By: Ben Atkin http://matthewpetro.name/2009/07/12/why-oss-is-higher-quality-software-than-proprietary/comment-page-1/#comment-83 Ben Atkin Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:10:52 +0000 http://matthewpetro.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-83 Thank you for not making a simple love vs. money argument that many who have tackled the subject make. I think it's hard to commission creative works and get a top-quality product. As has been seen time and time again in proprietary software, it's easier to see what rises to the top and buy that. Examples include PowerPoint (Microsoft), Flickr (Yahoo!), YouTube (Google), and Writely (Google). I think the reason there's a lot of high-quality Open Source projects is that there are so many of them, and that there's generally no reason to keep an open source project alive if the code isn't any good. Thank you for not making a simple love vs. money argument that many who have tackled the subject make. I think it’s hard to commission creative works and get a top-quality product. As has been seen time and time again in proprietary software, it’s easier to see what rises to the top and buy that. Examples include PowerPoint (Microsoft), Flickr (Yahoo!), YouTube (Google), and Writely (Google).

I think the reason there’s a lot of high-quality Open Source projects is that there are so many of them, and that there’s generally no reason to keep an open source project alive if the code isn’t any good.

]]> By: Ben Atkin http://matthewpetro.name/2009/07/12/why-oss-is-higher-quality-software-than-proprietary/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Ben Atkin Mon, 13 Jul 2009 03:10:00 +0000 http://matthewpetro.wordpress.com/?p=58#comment-760 Thank you for not making a simple love vs. money argument that many who have tackled the subject make. I think it's hard to commission creative works and get a top-quality product. As has been seen time and time again in proprietary software, it's easier to see what rises to the top and buy that. Examples include PowerPoint (Microsoft), Flickr (Yahoo!), YouTube (Google), and Writely (Google). I think the reason there's a lot of high-quality Open Source projects is that there are so many of them, and that there's generally no reason to keep an open source project alive if the code isn't any good. Thank you for not making a simple love vs. money argument that many who have tackled the subject make. I think it’s hard to commission creative works and get a top-quality product. As has been seen time and time again in proprietary software, it’s easier to see what rises to the top and buy that. Examples include PowerPoint (Microsoft), Flickr (Yahoo!), YouTube (Google), and Writely (Google).

I think the reason there’s a lot of high-quality Open Source projects is that there are so many of them, and that there’s generally no reason to keep an open source project alive if the code isn’t any good.

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