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Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:
> Open source can and does work as you describe. Good
> point, John. The rights I get out of a maintenance
> contract depend on negotiation, money's offered, etc.
> All software companies do not act exactly the same
> way.
Granted. I should have said "vendors of mass-market
software": the contracts-of-adhesion type.
> One can turn the open source
> argument on its head though and say that if a
> company has a sizable user base, that user base
> can and does often act in concert or small groups
> to get a BigCo to make changes
Been there, done that too. It was just amazing, what
happened in the (Xerox) Star User's Group when I
announced the first (open-source, though I didn't
know the term then) software ever available for Star
other than from Xerox. Before then, the user group's
mood had been basically "How the @#$* can we make
Xerox reprioritize our bug list?" All of a sudden,
it was "Can you write some software to do what we
want?" I never got more applause for a speech in
my life.....
> and that getting
> someone to keep their promises is the same
> problem regardless of the software source.
Not really. In one case, there *are* promises
if you pay to arrange for them; in
the other, the only promise is "AS IS, NO WARRANTY,
MAY RUIN YOUR COMPUTER, PROBABLY WON'T EVEN TOAST
BREAD" in insulting capital letters. (Yes, I know
why caps have to be used.)
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the corridors || http://www.reutershealth.com
during the hours of repose || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
in the boots of ascension. \\ Sign in Austrian ski-resort hotel
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