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Trouble With Open Source?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the devils-advocate dept.

George Russell writes "Stephen J Marshall, writing in the BCS online magazine, provides a cogent argument detailing the ills of Open Source Software for the software industry - namely, the lack of conceptual integrity, professionalism, and innovation together with the issue of ownership of OSS developed under the current Intellectual Property laws. Do these issues concern you?"

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  1. Re:Hrmph. by drsquare · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I don't think KDE or Gnome are very good examples. They just try to emulate a Windows/OSX interface, but with more bloat and transparency, not to mention more confusion, more disorganisation and crashing. Openoffice is hardly an Office-killer either.

    I think the only ones there which are any good are Apache, the kernel, Samba and Firefox.

    And for God's sake, not every fscking project needs to be innovative, all right ?

    Then why do Microsoft and Google get constant flak for copying old things and changing the presentation a bit and sticking their name on it?