On Mit, 2015-04-01 at 13:07 +0200, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 01.04.2015 um 13:04 schrieb Bernd Petrovitsch:
IMHO the larger the corporation is, the less are the chances for *long-term* benefits of the OSS/free software (mainly because: usually commercial success is driven and defined from marketing to sales[1] sown to the techies which are forced into "features" and "delivery dates" to achieve some "company defined goal" - and that is usually not "bug free", "safe", or the like. Free software/OSS just happens that *at least* half of it should come from the "working level" and that is - at least - much more - ahemm - "inconvenient" for sales people)
FWIW the context were large "old-school" corps (like Novell or Oracle) taking over free software companies.
that is simple not true - if it would be true linux distributions would
Define "true Linux distribution".
not include half baken and aplha quality sofwtare again and again in stable releases because "the market out there"
That's everywhere in the commercial world the problem with "delivery vs quality/known problems" and someone's decision to ship or not to ship - based in whatever feels appropriate.
BTW typical Linux distributions package some else's software and (almost) everyone knows that (and do not blame the distro for shipping buggy software - is there actually any bug-free software?;-).
And it depends on
- the package (core package like kernel, gcc, perl, apache-http, ...) vs some exotic application (the n+1.th text editor, MUA, ...).
- the bug in question - is that stuff unusable or happens the bug only if you do crazy creative stuff on files with 6+GB size or 1000k lines? And usually distros run bug tracking and (try to) get bugs fixed - in house or upstream.
the *possible* long-term benefits are more time to invest because a fixed income
If the free software is the core business, it is not a problem (and these are not the companies in the discussion).
Kind regards, BErnd
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