Subj : Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)
To   : comp.programming
From : Antoon Pardon
Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 08:31 am

Op 2005-09-27, Chris Sonnack schreef <Chris@Sonnack.com>:
> Willem writes:
>
>> What does Close-Source Software have that Open-Source Software does not ?
>
> Support and commitment of major vendors with a business plan.  Microsoft
> or IBM won't drop a project because the programmers get bored or ego get
> in the way.

Well I think this unnecessary limits closed source software to major
vendors.

> And when one major company purchases a product from another major company
> there are financial commitments in place, and the purchaser has a certain
> degree of leverage.

So? My wife is responsible for human resources in her job. She works with
some software product. Once she reported a bug within one of the modules
she needs. The software company refused to repair the bug because the
module in question was not used often enough to put people on it. They
rather paid a stipend to the few companies that complained about this
bug, than repair it.

The company my wife works for, wasn't happy. They would rather had 
the bug fixed.

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Antoon Pardon

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