Re: GNU Public Licences Revisited (again)

Joe wrote:
) Anyway, I'm not really saying that OSS is better or worse quality-wise - the
) openness or not of the source probably cannot be used alone as an estimate
) of the quality of the software. What I'm arguing is that OSS (which is
) often only considered because it is free cost), is not necessarily the best
) option in the long run for most people.

Would you not say, then, that you are actually arguing that *free* software
is not necessarily the best option ?

Anyway, of course sometimes there is better open source software, and
sometimes there is better closed source software.

My argument is roughly: if you use any piece of software that is closed
source, if would have been better if the vendor had decided to release
it under some open source license.


SaSW, Willem
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