anon :

Bob Robertson :
Every protocol used in F/OSS is fully documented. Every API is available to anyone to implement at will. Every I/O layer, every bit at every level.

That’s the biggest joke I’ve heard in ages. Majority of F/OSS apps/libs aren’t documented if at all.

That’s a good point.

Also one should consider the poor quality of source-code on most projects, open-source or not.

Personally, I think open-source projects are just as — and maybe even more — likely to be poorly coded.

It can be so badly coded sometimes that you need to be a OpenBSD hacker with 10 years experience just to get a clue of what’s happening with a C function…

See OpenSSL is written by monkeys.

I mean come on, that’s OpenSSL we are talking about!!! Goto statements all over the place jumping from one function body right into another. if(0) blocks to comment out code. And god knows what else.

This is what happens when you take a bunch or random coders, and have them randomly generate code.

Bob Robertson :
Every protocol used in F/OSS is fully documented. Every API is available to anyone to implement at will. Every I/O layer, every bit at every level.

That’s the biggest joke I’ve heard in ages. Majority of F/OSS apps/libs aren’t documented if at all.

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Keep trying linux desktop, keep trying

http://linuxhaters.blogspot.com/

yay sounds like fun

Having said that, I must add that Linux offers almost no advantage over Windows or Mac OS X on the desktop. If Linux is stronger on some fronts, it has it’s weakness’ in abundance on other fronts. Linux brings almost nothing new to the desktop. This failure is clearly reflected in it’s marketshare. For over 10 years Linux has been made available for free & still has about 3% (or was it 2% ?) marketshare. Linux fans must stop blaming microsoft & focus on their own failings.

yep Compare please Aero with Compiz – and U will understand about …inovation. Using almost any videocard – and from PIII to PIV – Compiz put Aero in the corner. No joke at all.

Also try http://www.glscube.org/ or glscube videos from http://www.glscube.org/download.html page.
or
http://www.mandriva.com/projects/metisse/
or
https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/

U will understand what I mean by innovation.

$MS ? $MS it’s about patents. If they think about a new word, they will request a patent to be sure none will use that word. This is the level of $MS.

Where was $MS innovations before Vista for example ? for few Years ? I ask you seriously – tell me some about because I and other web developers ask $MS to integrate some web standards (some CSS rules, PNG alpha tranparency support, tabs, etc) on IE for 5 years – bu we talk, we hear …until Firefox, then they wake up because IE position was affected – so what’s about customer care ???.

I remember I was using Google Desktop Search and Copernic
because I find XP search utility too slow and too non relevant.
Where was MS innovation there ?? – Well was nowhere because – Innovation is a myth.

Yep, tell that to Industrial Light and Magic, Dreamworks, Disney, Sony, Peugeot, Audi – and they will told you that the computing power and stability worth more than money. They all had money, they choose Linux – it time for you to ask yourself why.

Not because innovation is a myth.