Thread: what has "open source" and "linux" phone/tablet maemo os brought us?
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ZShakespeare is offline ZShakespeare
2010-06-08 , 00:24
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#18
Originally Posted by wmarone View Post
Why does it have to be commercial? Does something only have value if you pay for it?

How about GCC? MySQL? Numerous and sundry content management systems? Qt?

Define half finished? Do you define "finished" as being something like Windows, where it's never actually finished but simply has HUGE gaps between updates? Or OS X, which is similar?
I define finished as a product that works completely as advertised and has all the features, advantages, and benefits of a similar product in the market.

To be fair GCC and MySQL (while unfortunately not as sucessful as oracle) are excellent products, but we're talking about a consumer grade electronics here not server room software choice.