Messages in this thread | | | From | "Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <> | Subject | Re: Why is Nvidia given GPL'd code to use in non-free drivers? | Date | Sun, 5 Jan 2003 21:17:36 +0000 (UTC) |
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Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> [...] They say that open source usually leads to more powerful and > reliable software. [...]
Who are "they" and how do "they" put proof to this claim? This is one of the biggest lies of the open source community that I read again and again.
Most of the open source software works "about so". Do we have a bullet proof USB stack? WLAN drivers? DHCP code? ACPI? APM (which is about what? eight years old?)?
Open Source code most of the times is a collection of code of various quality from people who needed to "scratch an itch" or put a hack in to "support just my configuration".
If you find a well designed and completely specified and developed piece of open source software, you're almost sure to find a company or an individual having been paid for developing it and the putting it into open source.
Some open source code still gives me nightmares if I only think about the filenames.
Regards Henning
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