I've read what you all have written. I tend to agree with all of you. On the one hand, looking at it through a business perspective, Open Source does promote waist of programming hours, thus I agree that one way is to form some sort of a committee which will be as widely accepted as possible and will do two things:
1. Give out certification for Open Source programs, according to some well thought out and defined requirement list which they will post. 2. Form some kind of road map for the Open Source project priority and preference. This means that they will give a higher priority, and better chance for certification for certain projects which follow that road map. Of course no one has to get this certification, however, looking at business processes, users will tend to want to use certified programs more than non-certified. This business fact will actually cause many Open Source projects either to disappear, or conform to that committee. On the other hand, Open Source, as it is today, promotes creativity. Out of such many projects come out very innovating and interesting ideas. If we change the environment on that, who knows how many ideas will simply get lost. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Yehuda Drori Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 8:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: open source - is it that good..??? hi... I would like to raise a point about OPEN SOURCE.. I think there are a lot of human resources getting wasted with OPEN SOURCE projects. I've written a review where I spill my gut about it at: http://whatsup.org.il/modules.php?name=Reviews&rop=showcontent&id=7 and I would like you to response to that.. I don't want to get my hands burning but I think there is a point for a debate about the open source projects future and I would like to get some other points of view and see what the majority thinks. remember I don't want fights with no one, just get some new points of view :-) -- Yehuda Drori http://whatsup.org.il your Linux spot on the web in HEBREW ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
