Comment Re:This is the reason why Linux will fail... (Score 1) 127
You are right, to a degree. While it is true that if you don't get paid you tend to do what's more fun which (in the hackers case) often changes.
But this does not apply to sufficianlty large open-source project where there (almost) always are people to pick up when others tire. MAME is in fact a good example of an open-source project that's been goin going for a long time and has now been ported to a large amount of platforms and supports around a 1000 games - an enormous effort that even Mircosoft would have a hard time matching.
Also, Allthough Visual C++ has a very good IDE it's still heavily lacking in configuration possibilities. Maybe that's because *nix users expect more configurability, but it's still very annoying.
But this does not apply to sufficianlty large open-source project where there (almost) always are people to pick up when others tire. MAME is in fact a good example of an open-source project that's been goin going for a long time and has now been ported to a large amount of platforms and supports around a 1000 games - an enormous effort that even Mircosoft would have a hard time matching.
Also, Allthough Visual C++ has a very good IDE it's still heavily lacking in configuration possibilities. Maybe that's because *nix users expect more configurability, but it's still very annoying.
