On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 08:26 -0200, Jose Thadeu Cavalcante wrote:
On Friday 18 November 2005 07:55, Albert wrote:
The big problem, I think, is that there is a stigma around Linux that everything should be free and the other that OSS is free.
Because of this, there are some companies who tried there hand at the Linux market and failed. Examples of these are Corel Wordperfect and Borland Kylix. Yes both had design faults (like the Borland Kylix IDE requires a specific version of Wine to run which doesn't work on the newer Kernels but the compiler doesn't). Had these been open source products, someone out there would have been able to fix the problems in these products after they were abandoned by their makers.
Albert
I started to use Linux because Borland launch Kylix in 2000, I was programming in Delphi when use Windows. I purchase all versions 1, 2 and 3, but Borland stoped to update kylix and I love too much Linux that it was impossible to return to Windows. Then I go to C++ and KDevelop, I missing something of Delphi/Kylix, but the bugs of KDevelop is corrected by the community, on the other side Borland simply abandon your users, and in my opinion this is a great problem of closed/proprietary software, there is no compromise with the users.
It has been proposed that all corporate abandonware be made open source so that companies will either support or disclose. I like this concept as it would solve many problems by providing users or companies incentive to maintain good programs. Even on open source there is a process of natural selection for quality. IMHO it may be the purest form of capitolism in that no government or corporation can own it to the exclusion of all others and the innovations they bring to the table. -- ___ _ _ _ ____ _ _ _ | | | | [__ | | | |___ |_|_| ___] | \/