[PLUG] Finger Pointing

[Kristian Erik Hermansen]

On Feb 16, 2008 5:59 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm certainly not saying that closed source is as good as open source
> or that there are not huge advantages to open source. But I *am* saying
> that we should not paint everyone with the same brush. There are lots
> of good people in the closed source world and corporations are not all
> run by evil people.

Whether they are good or bad is not the issue :-)  It comes down to
dependency.  If you depend on closed-source vendors to fix your bugs,
it's like you are on crack, and they are the dealer...
-- 
Kristian Erik Hermansen
--
"It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an
intuition--and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing
gives out and then that--'Bugs'--as such little faults and
difficulties are called--show themselves and months of anxious
watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success--or
failure--is certainly reached" -- Thomas Edison in a letter to
Theodore Puskas on November 18, 1878