Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3135 mails)

[Russell Jones <russell.jones@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

John Andersen wrote:
> But Open Source should not have these problems.
> That's why its open.  Anybody can pick it up and maintain
> it. 
>   
It still has the advantage that there isn't abandonware and 
cemeteryware,  i.e.  products that are dead /and/ buried. These projects 
can be picked up, whilst closed source cannot (without vendor 
intervention: interesting that Qualcomm seem to be open-sourcing Eudora 
to create a kind of hybrid with Mozilla's Thunderbird and that Google 
persuaded HP to open the source of Tesseract OCR ).

Also, people are free to raise funds to pay a developer (a bounty) if 
they really want a feature. Free software is simply liberated: like all 
software, it costs money to maintain and configure. One can try to 
externalise that, or one can embrace it. We all benefit as a result if so.
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