Trouble With Open Source?

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?"

Comments

Re:Not really

[njcoder]

apparently the freedom to earn a living writing software, isn't an FSF endorsed freedom.

Re:Do these issues concern you?

[Anonymous Coward]

The fact that people even write articles like this really says something -- that the traditional industry is afraid of open source

LOL, yeah, keep telling yourself that. Only on Slashdot could such a deluded comment get modded up. My company that makes shitloads of money from its closed-source software is really quivering in its boots. For fucks sake, get real. OSS is a great concept, and I'd actually love to use it at work, but I've generally found most OSS software to be poor in comparison to equivalent closed source software, for the reasons mentioned in the article and more. And the software my company makes? No OSS stuff comes close.

And contrary to what you would love to believe, reports like this actaully come about because a lot of industry wants to use it.

Re:Hrmph.

[drsquare]

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?