Perens Discredits Mundie's Attack On GPL

SaxMan101 writes "CNET has an editorial from Bruce Perens that quite handily dismantles Mundies attack on the GPL and the Liberty Alliance. He takes the time to make YA strong argument for free software which he backs up with real numbers. Well said, worth the read."

Comments

Re:An interesting perspective

[edremy]

One of the things that I consider a big advantage of Open Source is the fact that there is less need to re-invent the wheel all the time.

Ahh, that must explain KDE and Gnome then.

Re:Strong argument?

[erasmus_]

Unix admins use SSH while Windows admins drive? If only there was a secure way to get into MS servers to administer them remotely. Hmm, VNC, Citrix, and MS's own Terminal services seem to fit that bill.

Frankly, Windows just requires more support. Been there done that.

You've served as a support technician for a large Linux desktop installation? I kind of doubt it. From the kind of users I work with, they're a lot more proficient in Windows and MS Office than Star Office. I would estimate that a lot more support calls would get generated from people not knowing how to use Linux software than those that don't know how to use Windows (which is of course still a huge number).

VB code usually is a mangled mess of sphagetti (sp?) code, procedural and pseudo-object code. Been there seen that.

You've seem to have been in a lot of places and done a lot of things. But from where I've been, it's the programmer and the project manager who affect the final outcome and reusability of code, language has little to do with it. Just b/c there are a lot of VB programmers who don't understand n-tier or creating libraries, does not make the language bad. And with VB.NET, there is now full inheritance.