OSS Developers Provide A Glimmer of Hope

sebFlyte writes "In a recent speech at the ACCU conference in Oxford, software design guru James Coplein said that unless consumers start demanding more and putting up with less crap from software firms, the quality of proprietary software would keep spiralling down. He was full of praise for open source though, saying 'The complementary, independent, selfless acts of thousands of individuals can address system problems -- there are thousands of people making the system stronger.'"

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Re:it will go down?

[syousef]

I think the quality of both proprietary and open source software is attrocious. The difference is you pay people good money for proprietary, and open source developers are often contributing to give something back to the community. It's ungracious at the least to fault someone who's giving you something for nothing. If you don't like what he's giving you don't use it. It's just as hard to look the other way when someone makes you pay for something and it doesn't work as advertised.