RE: Moving on...
- Posted by eugtk at yahoo.com
Aug 16, 2003
--- Ray Smith <smithr at ix.net.au> wrote:
> Closed source products (i.e. Euphoria, Microsoft
> products etc) are
> made by people who want to make money.
>
> Open Source products (i.e. Perl, Python, Ruby) are
> made by people who
> want to make great products.
That's it, in a nutshell.
I'd like to add one thing:
Before you invest a lot of your valuable time in
learning
a closed-source, commercial product, you should
realize that in the never-ending quest for more money,
most companies plan for their products to become
"obsolete" and "unsupported" at a certain future date.
That date
is usually a day or two after you get really
productive with that product.
In addition, there's a real incentive to not fix bugs
-
because if they did, why would anyone buy next year's
"new and improved" edition?
Open source products tend to have a longer useful
lifespan, since they mostly operate on the theory that
'if it ain't broke, don't fix it'. And the open source
folks
see a bug as an embarassment, not as an opportunity
to sell you an upgrade.
Irv
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