Re: Open source vs Closed source... What makes Open Source tick.

Your response will much appreciated, I m a post graduate student and I m very interested

on writing a paper on open source development process. so please feel free to respond :-)

On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 11:24 AM, John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You need to fix your terminology first :-)

There are companies that do open source development (Nokia/Trolltech
being the obvious ones since they produced Qt that KDE is based on).

Likewise there are individuals that write proprietary code.

The rest of the post is flamebait that I won't bother to rise to.

John

2009/7/28 viwe lolwane <ghostnet2000@xxxxxxxxx>:

> Hi everyone.
> Just have a general question on open source, I would like to know what is
> the reason behind
> the success of open source development, looking at the success of products
> like linux, kde
> this are world class software products..  when you look at the development
> process of open
> source I can deduce that documentation is rare, the developers operate on
> environments like
> mailing list, forums, they rarely meet.
> How are reliable are open source softwares compared  to closed source
> softwares developed
> like organizations, and i would also like to compare the development process
> used by both. is
> it fair to say that open source software must be full of bugs and errors
> compared to closed
> source because it is designed by volunteers  but again it has been
> successful. is the future
> of development an open source development process or are we doomed to fail?
> What is really good about Open Source, and what are the disadvantages.
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