Subj : Re: Are programmers like this in the real world?
To   : comp.programming
From : Randy Howard
Date : Thu Jul 28 2005 06:14 pm

Martin Eisenberg wrote
(in article <1122555807.956944@ostenberg.wh.uni-dortmund.de>):

> 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. 

I'm sure there is some of that, and some of it may be MS FUD.  

> Is that wrong or are things changing?

As with most things, 'it depends', but I see a lot of companies 
using OSS software, particularly on the back end, email/exchange 
replacement, web servers, development tools, scripting, open 
source library use, etc.


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