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2009-11-22 , 23:48
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Originally Posted by olighak View Post
I see I´ve hit a sore spot.
Yes. Because you got it mostly wrong, see Ewan's post for more information.

Much of the OSS seems centered around amateur programmers, people that are not paid for creating applications but paid for perhaps at best paid for something else such as creating hardware, and that hardware just happens to need some firmware. Many of them are programmers during evenings and weekends, and sometimes that can´t compete with the open.
Yes, that must be the reason why most of the internet runs on free software, because all of that has been written by people only running the net during the evening or on weekends.

Well Apple does not depend on Quicktime for its livelyhood does it? I don´t remember being charged for downloading and installing it. How much of Apple´s revenue is generated by Quicktime?
Yes, but it is a commercial application, and then you can call someone to fix it and rely on them to do it, or wasn't that what you and others said before? The problem with that is that it does not work. Neither with Apple, nor with Microsoft and those aren't even the worst vendors regarding fixes in their applications.

It's not like I don't want to believe you, I just have seen how awfully long it takes most commercial vendors to even fix *small* things. No matter how much money you throw at them.

So I for one do not want to rely on commercial vendors to fix things.
 

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