Myths About Open Source Development

jpkunst writes "A thought-provoking article by chromatic on oreillynet, listing eight "myths" that Open Source developers tell themselves. For example: Myth: Publicly releasing open source code will attract flurries of patches and new contributors. Reality: You'll be lucky to hear from people merely using your code, much less those interested in modifying it."

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Re:myth 12:

[Lane.exe]

You mean Microsoft is superior because they are nice enough to write shitty enough code to allow script-kiddos like yourself to keep exploiting it with viruses so that you can impress the rest of your "1337 friends" and dream about getting laid as you think of how hot it would be to be in a threesome with Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Ann Moss? Yeah, I guess you're right in that sense.

Come back in 5 or 6 years when you have a real job in IT and have actually used OSS projects in the workplace. Tell me that all those W2K server licenses were worth it when, after the 9 billionth time they'd crashed, you switched to Debian and Apache for free, and never looked back. Tell me this.