Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th Apr 2006 19:00 UTC
Proponents of the free and open-source software development model are using the recently announced delays in the shipping of Microsoft's Windows Vista and Office 2007 products as an example of how the company's software engineering process simply does not work well. They are also pointing to how it stands in direct contrast with the way software gets developed in the free and open-source community, and using the delays to explain why theirs is the better choice.
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2005-07-06
That's a good point.
But theres another message that's equally important.
Delivery dates have nothing to do with software quality.
Give me something that works. I don't need version .01. Some of the linux software makes me laugh because it sounds like they write the first 10 lines and then release it to great fanfare.
I'm certain microsoft wanted to release vista earlier, but lets be frank: Windows xp is a very decent os. I use it at home, our users are all on xp, they like it. Vista will run a little bit better and they'll like it too.. and we'll run it at home. If its late, so what.
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