Does Open Source Need Quality Standards?

underpar writes "This Techworld.com article reports that a UK group called the Open Source Consortium is being officially launched today. The article further states that the goal of the group is to respond to claims that switching to open source is more expensive than using Microsoft products and to help smaller companies compete with Sun and IBM for open source contracts. They say they will not compete with other open source groups and they intend to eventually come to the US. The hype-filled about us section of their site says their Quality Standard Certification provides a "simple framework for self-assessment and performance improvement." The question of whether this is useful or even wanted in the US still remains to be answered."

Comments

Quality from guys who haven't bathed in a month?

[Anonymous Coward]

I think the first step in assuring quality OSS is to teach some of these guys how to take care of themselves first! lol

Re:Dumb overgeneralization

[thomasdelbert]

What are you taking about? Diebold voting machines were working exactly as designed. Bush "won", didn't he?

- Thomas;