At 11:20 even 9/5/02 -0600, JTD wrote:
You reeeally need to do some serious reading. These so called features are individual tastes. If you think that these are features read Philip's mail. Features are those which comply with standards and work universally.
dictionary : feature - A prominent aspect of something. A feature could be anything *you* wanted to put in. That is why the patent system came it. Patents allowed people to put in *features* which other could *not* i.e. not universally available. (The moral/ethical aspects of the patenting system is an open and completely different discussion.)
are you confusing free and libre?. Libre software is buggy but allows U to correct it. Closed software is far more buggy BUT actively prevents u from discovering, correcting or publishing thes bugs.
There are tremendous advantages of open source. But on what basis do you say that closed software are far more buggy ??? Why makes such comments that have weak basis and which put the open source movement in bad light? Because this plainly makes out that the source may be open but the mind is closed.
FYI, there have been IBM mainframes with "closed" OS as well as the software which have been running robustly for more than a decade in many a bank.
Yeah try explaining that to Billy baba.
I would love to, could you arrange a meeting please? I also hope he gives me some money...
regards, quasi