With OSS, you would have several programs to choose from. One could give you a lot of choices (Perl...), while another could present only one way of doing only one thing. All according to the authors choice.
It seems to me that there are more real choice with OSS than many commercial programs (at least you can afford trying the alternatives lawfully) and that many commercial programs (e.g. Windows) gives you a lot of unnessecary and functionally equal choices. I think they are often there to impress users and marketing guys, not because they give us revolutionary functionality.
IMHO, our ability to choose is so important that it would be reasonable to choose not to bother it with trivial choices.
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With OSS, you would have several programs to choose from. One could give you a lot of choices (Perl...), while another could present only one way of doing only one thing. All according to the authors choice.
It seems to me that there are more real choice with OSS than many commercial programs (at least you can afford trying the alternatives lawfully) and that many commercial programs (e.g. Windows) gives you a lot of unnessecary and functionally equal choices. I think they are often there to impress users and marketing guys, not because they give us revolutionary functionality.
IMHO, our ability to choose is so important that it would be reasonable to choose not to bother it with trivial choices.
The group shamen did this several years ago, on the DNA sequence coding for the 5HT-2a receptor.