[Community-lug] еще один довод ЗА open-source development model

[Mike Lykov]

Автор samba (Andrew Tridgell) говорит :

http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,2000048630,20280072,00.htm

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During the lifetime of Samba several proprietary software products that 
essentially do the same thing have been developed by various companies, 
including companies with deep pockets and plenty of experienced developers. 
The proprietary equivalents have never enjoyed the same success and it's not 
just because of the price. Open source development has turned Samba into a 
high-quality, feature-rich piece of software. It's not simply a good choice 
because it's "cheap". 

Free software and sharing source code has a longer history than the relatively 
new notion of proprietary software. Many people don't realise that when the 
computing age started it was just considered natural to share your source 
code with other people, just like the academic community shares ideas via 
journals and scientific collaboration. 

Unfortunately some people then discovered that it was possible to make your 
fortune by "hoarding" software and the age of proprietary software was born. 
What most people don't think about is the huge cost to society that this new 
way of developing software has left us with. We now have large numbers of 
programmers reinventing poorly designed bits of software, most of which will 
eventually be discarded and lost forever. 

 Thanks to the pioneering efforts of people like Richard Stallman the free 
software community is breathing life back into the old methods of software 
development where sharing your source code is the norm and making your 
fortune is less important. The result is a set of software which forms the 
basic building blocks of the Internet and reaches into just about every area 
of computing. 
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достаточно просто, кратко и понятно ;)

-- 
Mike
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