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Marketing idea: intentionally buggy open source.

• cperciva 17y ago
  Most open source code already has plenty of bugs. No need to add more.
  • amichail 17y ago
    The idea here is to have so many bugs that you can't really use the open source version of the product at all. In this way, a company can release its software as open source without worrying too much about competition from that code.
    • olefoo 17y ago
      At the risk of destroying their reputation. If you have an open source version and a closed source version, it's better to differentiate them on features and support not on code quality. If someone has their technical staff do a code audit and the answer comes back that this code is so horrible that we don't want it touching our data, that will be thought true of both versions.
      • amichail 17y ago
        Everyone would know that bugs have been inserted into the code to make it unusable. But programmers can still learn something from the code regardless (e.g., high level design).