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Please be more specific than "non-open-source software development" – what exactly are you suggesting I'm suggesting? Perhaps I could clarify by defining a cat
by sounds 13y ago
Please be more specific than "non-open-source software development" – what exactly are you suggesting I'm suggesting?
Perhaps I could clarify by defining a cathedral/bazaar axis, and an open/closed axis.
A centralized effort can achieve the original idea more quickly than ad-hoc distributed effort.
Free software has this common downfall: a developer wants to reinvent the wheel, and nobody takes the time to educate him why that's a bad idea. It's easier to just accept his patch and forget about it.
What happens to closed software is completely invisible to the community, so I consider it irrelevant but perhaps worse than what happens to free software.
- simonw 13y agoIt looks like I misunderstood you. When you said "This is an example of a major downfall with free software" I assumed you meant that it was a major downfall that was unique to free software, which implied that you thought it didn't affect other kinds of software development. Your reply here implies that you don't believe this, so I retract my previous comment.
- sounds 13y agoI could have stated that better. Thanks!