Talis
join:2001-06-21
Houston, TX
| reply to FD5
Re: open source
That whole comment about turning over driver development to the open source world is just a troll. I'll bite, I guess.
The company screwed up a firmware upgrade. Don't you think comments like this are just an over-reaction to the issue? What makes the author believe that any open-source project to maintain and develop these drivers would have prevented this?
Comments like this infuriate me. They equate problem code with commercial development and immaculately conceived, flawlessly executing code with open-source, communal development. Open source code can stink just as much, if not more, than commercial code.
I can guarantee you that what matters most, much more than whether a commercial enterprise wrote the code or some group of uber-geeks on a mountain-top, are the controls put in place to ensure quality. If those don't exist, neither group will come close to writing software that works. |
