Re: Open Source vs. Commercial

Msangali wrote:
>
> Totally agree. I was just pointing out that closed source projects
> also fail, amazing examples are everywhere, and many of them burned
> dozens of millions of dollars in the proccess. High rates of failure
> are a problem of the software industry, regardless of the business
> model adopted.

Agreed. The question is whether there is any quantifiable difference between
commercial and OSS in this regard. My *sense* of it is no, in fact I would
expect far more OSS to fail precisely because there is a lot of it that can
do so without serious consequence - nobody has invested their money or
future in a given project and the participants can simply decide to walk
away and do something else.

Where there is actually something riding on the outcome, it is probably a
lot closer, but I'd be curious to see substantiated measurements.

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