[LINK] Troll Bait... Sorry.

[Stephen Jenkin]

What's the worlds' most successful programming environment?

Ain't any proprietary product - I bet it's something like PERL or 'gcc'.
Built out of love for the task and the kudos of just doing it.

And who are *the* world experts in Microsoft's SMB protocol(s) - not
Microsoft (they churn the people in the team pretty fast) - it's the SAMBA
team...

What's the world's most used web server - bigger than everything else put
together?  Apache, not any commercial offering.

And what software switches the bulk of email on the Internet -
sendmail/postfix/.... all OSS - *not* commercial products.


The important part of "Open Source" is not *free*, but *open*.
You're *never* going to be hung out to dry by commercial concern.

Commercial considerations *are* important - businesses have to get
something back so they keep going.

What Open Source Software shows is:
 - it's possible to make money *and* publish your source
 - the best software is *not* always propriatery
 - there are market niches when Free, Open and Propriatery solutions
   are each the best answer.
 - Customers respond to *choice*


Sorry everyone if the Trolls come out to play ;-)


Steve Jenkin, Info Tech, Systems and Design Specialist.
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