Re: The Industry choice

From: Mike Meyer (mwm_at_mired.org)
Date: 01/03/05 

Date: Sun, 02 Jan 2005 17:18:43 -0600

Bulba! <bulba@bulba.com> writes:

> This "free software" (not so much OSS) notion "but you can
> hire programmers to fix it" doesn't really happen in practice,
> at least not frequently: because this company/guy remains
> ALONE with this technology, the costs are unacceptable.

Yes, but fixing python software - even sloppily written python
software - is pretty easy. I regularly see contracts to add a feature
to or fix a bug in some bit of OSS Python.

   <mike 

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