[PLUG] OSS Rundown

Paul Heinlein heinlein at madboa.com
Mon Sep 13 03:03:01 UTC 2004


On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Jason Van Cleve wrote:

> Below is a brief appraisal of OSS, which I've just written.  It's 
> completely redundant, just sort of an in-my-own-words type exercise. 
> But if you should decide to peruse it, feel free to comment or quote 
> it according to your own caprice.
>
> --Jason Van Cleve
>
>
> Untitled:
>
> From my reading, there seem to be two basic arguments in favor of Open
> Source Software, one economical and the other idealogical, and both of
> which apply to enterprise application development.  To my own mind,
> moreover, the idealogical argument is by far the stronger of the two.
> In fact there is a third argument, that of security, [....]

I'd add two other arguments:

* OSS is educational and fun in ways that closed-source software will
   never be.

* OSS typically provides greater flexibility, since you get to
   configure and build it the way you want.

-- Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com>




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