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- iNaya, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Whoever criticises open source as "cobbled together by a bunch of acne-ridden teens" shouldn't be in a position to make any decision on what software a business uses, purely because most of the famous open source projects are run by people well into their thirties and forties.
- diggapleaze, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15I thought this was Yet Another Government Adopts Linux story...until I read:
"The total investment is in the region of €25m, and is being matched by money from industry."
I just fell out of my chair! - Sothis, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6That was no criticism, it was an observation on one of the more egregious pieces of FUD we are countering. By the way, it was made by someone in their forties also...
- SNIa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_Grade_Linux
- Coronagold, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"cobbled together by a bunch of acne-ridden teens"
Okay, so they really meant "a bunch of acne-ridden 40 year-olds". Get over it. - BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I completely agree JQP.
It's basically at the heart of my criticism of Linux a few posts earlier. it's only very recently that some of the more chaotic opensource projects realized what was going on and started instituting any sort of quality control. Some of the most mature opensource projects have had a very strict organization involved that cares about quality. Apache, GNU (minus linux), MySQL, Mozilla Firefox, etc - unsolicited, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I think quality is not the issue in open source.
The problem is developers insulate themselves with "naive" users.
They should be "sensitive" to their requirements and expectations. - pixelbeat_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1€50m! cool.
I wrote about SQO-OSS previously here:
http://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/oss_project_quality.html - ovejeromd, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3a mil of that should be spent on acne treatments.
- JQP123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2"I think quality is not the issue in open source."
I think the biggest issue is both obvious and inherent to the very nature of open source --- lack of organization and control.
Too much fragmentation, too many people with ideas that aren't necessarily any better, just different. Without any real authority able to control or direct the overall effort, a lot of it ends up being effectively wasted. Basically, there is too much anarchy in Open Source. Open Source is like the Huns before Attila, an unorganized group of small independent warring tribes in desperate need of leadership in order to make any mark on history. The history of civilization and humanity shows fairly conclusively in my opinion that anarchy is not the best path to greatness.
Not that the inconvenient truth has been revealed, go ahead and digg me down but it won't change anything. - WildBil, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I will take some of that. Thanks!
Thats the problem with throwing money that way and thats really the problem here.
But not for me.
:-) - JQP123, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0"... it was an observation on one of the more egregious pieces of FUD we are countering."
Obviously, someone feels there is an issue here other than just FUD. Otherwise, the money would have been better spent on publicity and marketing rather than quality control. - atralyx, on 10/12/2007, -5/+2Cobbled together by a bunch of acne-ridden teens ?!?!?!?!?!?!?
does that include SUN and IBM , and now even some by MS
even the earlier and still current even programmers were never acne ridden teens
Funny , throwing so much money at some thing they know nothing about - abuser, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0> throws money at Open Source software quality control
^^^^^^^^^
Indeed.... - mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2It sounds to me like a lot of the money will go down the drain with no tangible outcomes. That money could be spent on actually improving the quality of the most widely used/needed open source software, not spending it on writing a bunch of papers and developing some esoteric tools that may not do squat to improve quality.
We should all know, by now, what quality in software means (anybody who has done IT/Comp Sci at a university should know) and where Linux's shortcomings are -ie, consistency in the user interface. Pay some people to work on these projects so that a consistent whole will be the result and then the money will have been well spent. - simpleid, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2edit: bury.
- BrainInAJar, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Step one would be to either freeze the Linux kernel for a year or two to focus on bug fixing, or to use a non-linux opensource kernel...
Idealistically, linux is cool, but technologically it's starting to show that it was a school project & a dumping ground for halfbaked ideas for too long before anyone realized that it was starting to be used for important things...
it's become such that some *major* cleanup is well past due, or abandonment of the kernel in favour of one of the BSD's, OpenSolaris (nexenta if you like GNU )
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