Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 30th May 2003 02:18 UTC
Thursday here, a slow evening. Time for a new poll. This poll might require you to think a bit extra: it asks you to vote not for your favorite application, but which OSS application, in your opinion, has achieved high standards, performance, features and ease of use when compared to the best of breed of the closed source world. Read more for more explanation and voting.
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apache and GCC really are in a class by themselves.
Apache is probably the best performance of OSS out there. They basicly created the web server market--people develop commercial servers and compare them to Apache! Not only that, but most major server vendors give it credit and help it out, even if they develop competing products.
More projects should aim to be like apache, but in reality, that level of hobby and commercial support isn't really possible for most OSS projects.
While we're on the subject, what apps could be created that would thrive in the OSS environment? What things out there can't the commercial market do because there's no money, no thougt of it, not enough cooperation, etc... A 100% WIMP-free desktop would be one, but what other things simply don't exist? Or are in too poor shape?