Are you seriously comparing the government to a company? You work for the company. It owes you your salary, but not much more. The government is supposed to represent you. It is, by definition, public. It is accountable to you. It shouldn't keep (too many...) secrets.
maybe they could even find some way to patent-encumber some changes that they'd make to the kernel If they did, they couldn't distribute their version of the kernel (even GPL v2 prevents that)
What whith the ubiquity of pr0n, avaliable readily for free and without embarrassment on the Intarweb Tubes, the testosterone no longer has a chance to build up in the male body. Interesting? You don't ejaculate testosterone, you know. I'm no specialist, but I don't see why there would be a "build up".
Care to share which languages those are? I'm pretty sure the second one is Chinese, from what I heard about it. As for the first one, I don't know (Latin has this kind of property), but I'm quite surprised you could split up "New York"
This has gotta be one of the weirder (mis)uses of the term "market". After all, the competing "products" aren't for sale, and a "market" is usually a place where people sell things. Well, Mozilla.com is a "for-profit", and they actually make money (although it's not their primary goal), so "market" is not necessarily that wrong. See e.g. here
Would the world have ended if we discovered that Word had 476 defects? No, but Microsoft wouldn't have liked it (I'm not saying Microsoft was involved in any way, it's just to go with your example of Word) There are those things called "NDAs" which prevent releasing this kind of data. We can't even tell you which companies were involved I'm afraid.
We're still left wondering if they're comparing Apache to some 20-year-old proprietary CAD program at Boeing where most of the bugs have already been hunted down. How is that relevant to business executives trying to assess the relative value of proprietary and open-source software for their companies? A lot of software has been analyzed on both sides, and we're looking at aggregate data. You might say that the average target of open source (in terms of "expected quality") is different from the average target of closed source, but I don't think the comparison is fundamentally wrong.
whether aggregate bug counts are a meaningful measure of software quality, which I'd dispute as well. It might not be directly proportional, but I think it's meaningful. And that's the data we have.
See, open-source is buggy and you can't trust it. It says so right here in Business Week! I'm surprised how many people consider this is article as being so negative on open source. On the contrary it says that on average, open source is less buggy. Unless you only read the summary, which contradicts itself by saying that closed source is on average 5 times better than open source while open source is on average better than closed source.
Note: As you might have guessed, I work for Coverity.
You're not talking about a power source, just an expensive and dangerous power transmission medium. Dangerous? I think it's under control. We use this all the time. What about those natural gas pipes everywhere?
In that case, might I recommend that Americans bring in the Swiss in order that they may have a supervised election run by an impartial third party? relevant link...
Metal, after oil, is our least renewable resource It depends which metal you're talking about... Most elements are metals, and they're more or less abundant ("renewable")
1. Nicholls State University is in Thibodaux, Louisana which isn't exactly a hotbed of business research 2. His study doesn't state where the funding to conduct the study was obtained from. 3. The data came from the Consume Expenditure Survey, which is notoriously inaccurate You may want to check on ad hominem
a handy trick for those using a gmail account is to add a '+' to the user name The problem is that at least 1/2 of the services on the web will consider this an invalid address (despite it being perfectly valid). Very annoying.
Slashdot Mirror
First time I've seen the brain called a muscle.
Are you seriously comparing the government to a company?
You work for the company. It owes you your salary, but not much more.
The government is supposed to represent you. It is, by definition, public. It is accountable to you. It shouldn't keep (too many...) secrets.
maybe they could even find some way to patent-encumber some changes that they'd make to the kernel
If they did, they couldn't distribute their version of the kernel (even GPL v2 prevents that)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bathtub_curve
Nitpick:
It's a hunter-seeker, not a hunter-killer
the paradox of the pixel/vertex shader pipelines
Maybe you meant paradigm? (as in "paradigm shifting"...)
If you read your link, they are still using LinuxBIOS, but not as a bootloader anymore (only as a BIOS)
Look at the cache:
These terms only appear in links pointing to this page: zune
As mentioned elsewhere, it most likely indicates a googlebomb.
What whith the ubiquity of pr0n, avaliable readily for free and without embarrassment on the Intarweb Tubes, the testosterone no longer has a chance to build up in the male body.
Interesting? You don't ejaculate testosterone, you know. I'm no specialist, but I don't see why there would be a "build up".
You can even do this with a bookmarklet.
Care to share which languages those are?
I'm pretty sure the second one is Chinese, from what I heard about it.
As for the first one, I don't know (Latin has this kind of property), but I'm quite surprised you could split up "New York"
Six words is enough for anybody
This has gotta be one of the weirder (mis)uses of the term "market". After all, the competing "products" aren't for sale, and a "market" is usually a place where people sell things.
Well, Mozilla.com is a "for-profit", and they actually make money (although it's not their primary goal), so "market" is not necessarily that wrong. See e.g. here
Think how much less we'd pollute if we could close down 4 out of every 100 power plants.
I'm guessing about 4% less. That's still not much.
playing an ancient game
As opposed to what? Baseball? Football? Basketball?
Would the world have ended if we discovered that Word had 476 defects?
No, but Microsoft wouldn't have liked it (I'm not saying Microsoft was involved in any way, it's just to go with your example of Word)
There are those things called "NDAs" which prevent releasing this kind of data. We can't even tell you which companies were involved I'm afraid.
We're still left wondering if they're comparing Apache to some 20-year-old proprietary CAD program at Boeing where most of the bugs have already been hunted down. How is that relevant to business executives trying to assess the relative value of proprietary and open-source software for their companies?
A lot of software has been analyzed on both sides, and we're looking at aggregate data. You might say that the average target of open source (in terms of "expected quality") is different from the average target of closed source, but I don't think the comparison is fundamentally wrong.
whether aggregate bug counts are a meaningful measure of software quality, which I'd dispute as well.
It might not be directly proportional, but I think it's meaningful. And that's the data we have.
See, open-source is buggy and you can't trust it. It says so right here in Business Week!
I'm surprised how many people consider this is article as being so negative on open source. On the contrary it says that on average, open source is less buggy. Unless you only read the summary, which contradicts itself by saying that closed source is on average 5 times better than open source while open source is on average better than closed source.
Note: As you might have guessed, I work for Coverity.
Without seeing how the closed source apps were analyzed.
They were analyzed the exact same way. The results are of course not public.
Verbing weirds language.
You're not talking about a power source, just an expensive and dangerous power transmission medium.
Dangerous? I think it's under control. We use this all the time. What about those natural gas pipes everywhere?
I hope to God you used a script to generate that comment.
He didn't, or "you" wouldn't link to "do"
In that case, might I recommend that Americans bring in the Swiss in order that they may have a supervised election run by an impartial third party?
relevant link...
Metal, after oil, is our least renewable resource
It depends which metal you're talking about... Most elements are metals, and they're more or less abundant ("renewable")
1. Nicholls State University is in Thibodaux, Louisana which isn't exactly a hotbed of business research
2. His study doesn't state where the funding to conduct the study was obtained from.
3. The data came from the Consume Expenditure Survey, which is notoriously inaccurate
You may want to check on ad hominem
I don't know were you got this idea but it is wrong.p atibleLibs
He got it from here:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLIncom
a handy trick for those using a gmail account is to add a '+' to the user name
The problem is that at least 1/2 of the services on the web will consider this an invalid address (despite it being perfectly valid). Very annoying.