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entwisi · 23-03-2006, 12:52

You should be , aplha softawre really is held together with string and cellotape, it does break and often, teh whole point is to find teh problems before 15 millions users start using it in anger.

This is teh beauty of open source software. In teh case of IE you may have a couple of thousand users trying to break it, with OSS you can have millions trying. there is also that within large comapnies teh blame culture often hides things whereas with OSS teh kudos comes from finding a bug and it getting fixed.

23-03-2006, 12:52	#3
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4389	Re: For teh Firefox fiends You should be , aplha softawre really is held together with string and cellotape, it does break and often, teh whole point is to find teh problems before 15 millions users start using it in anger. This is teh beauty of open source software. In teh case of IE you may have a couple of thousand users trying to break it, with OSS you can have millions trying. there is also that within large comapnies teh blame culture often hides things whereas with OSS teh kudos comes from finding a bug and it getting fixed. __________________ Ian Technical God, No 1 Geek And Linux Guru Have you seen my Flickr pictures?