Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on July 16, 2003 01:36 AM
Well, an OSS person would say... 1) progress is being made, albeit slowly. 2) you have choice.
a) you can pay for open source software, and I bet the kind you do pay for is much more to your liking b) this is a beuaty of open source. You can use other's code to make your own. Or take theirs and make it better.
I agree though that installation/documentation is neglected. Right now, we are like a new forest (see 'Succession'). We have grasses and brambles and a few trees (kernel, apache, php) As the forest matures, the grasses die off and get replaced with trees. Until you have a nice forest. The commercial world was able to come in and get some help, get planted and has care givers. Open source is by nature a lot less directed, but it will get there.
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Re:Same old story
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 16, 2003 01:36 AM1) progress is being made, albeit slowly.
2) you have choice.
a) you can pay for open source software, and I bet the kind you do pay for is much more to your liking
b) this is a beuaty of open source. You can use other's code to make your own. Or take theirs and make it better.
I agree though that installation/documentation is neglected. Right now, we are like a new forest (see 'Succession'). We have grasses and brambles and a few trees (kernel, apache, php) As the forest matures, the grasses die off and get replaced with trees. Until you have a nice forest. The commercial world was able to come in and get some help, get planted and has care givers. Open source is by nature a lot less directed, but it will get there.
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