16 Apr
2011
16 Apr
'11
1:32 p.m.
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:33:17PM -0600, Richard wrote:
In article <9AADCE11E0DD44EA9EAB11392540FA36 at ANTONIOPC>,
<arcarlini at iee.org> writes:
Ok, _that_ claim is, admittedly, silly. There _is_ a lot of very high
quality open source out there, definitely, It such isn't the majority
of open source code in existence. Hey, anything written in PHP already
has a 99.9% chance of being utter crap to begin with ;-)
But the upside is, again: with open source, even if the code is crap, you
can actually take a look at the source, see that it is hopeless and move
on to something that works (or build it yourself) instead of buying lots
of duck tape, baling wire and chewing gum to keep the expensive "enterprise
solution" somehow from _visibly_ shitting over itself on a regular basis.
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
If you mean "a significant amount of stuff
out there is essentially
unmaintainable"
you are almost certainly correct. But why is that such a big deal?
Its not a big deal to me personally, but its important to keep in mind
when people make the claim that *most* open source code is high
quality.