Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 20th Dec 2002 12:41 UTC
"The Open Source community's answer is to ignore Microsoft's incredible technological lead - because it is proprietary and not a standard - and instead focusses on their own cool thing and self-gratifying cool features, because they think they can do better (which is where the ignorance combined with ego comes in)." Join the discussion at Advogato.
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"One more time, when you pay 0$, you get the amount of quality your money have purchased.
Wow. You're a professionnal troller, aren't you ?"
I love how open source zealots would rather just accuse people of trolling instead of address the alegations made. But I guess I should expect that from a lot of the open source community by now.
Bottom line is the article is largely correct. Open source has not produced anything innovative. All it has done is clone existing software and ideas.
And in many cases, yes OSS is way behind closed source software in the technology department. For example, the Linux kernel is light years behind the Solaris kernel. Example. KOffice is light years behind MS Office. (And don't tell me OpenOffice. The only reason it is as good as it is is because it was a gift from SUN that was already well developed commercial software.) GIMP, although useful, is light years behind PhotoShop.
I mean really... Outside of a few common applications like mail software and web servers, is there any open souce software that is anything more than a poorly done and semi-functional clone of a commercial product? Not really.