Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Martin Eisenberg
Date : Thu Jul 28 2005 02:03 pm

Randy Howard wrote:

> Lot less need to reinvent something on the 
> cheap to avoid having to pay for a commercial version as the
> open source software space gets filled out.  I suspect this has
> a lot more to do with job problems in the US than people give
> credit to, preferring to blame it on outsourcing.

Past online discussion has given me the impression that most 
companies are quite reluctant to use OSS due to plain NIH syndrome, 
accountability problems, and GPL as the case may be. Is that wrong or  
are things changing?


Martin

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