Comment Advantages for the "average joe"? (Score 1) 272
There's plenty of advantages for average users. For example, I downloaded an mp3 player for my mac. It had a slight bug, making it to allocate too little ram for mp3 playback, causing skips. I reported this, then waited 6 months until the writer fixed the problem.
On the other hand, I downloaded an ftp client for linux. It had some bugs also, which were reported to the proper newsgroups by undoubtedly many other users. In a matter of days, some anonymous user had fixed the problems.
Advantages of OSS for the average joe? I see plenty.
On the other hand, I downloaded an ftp client for linux. It had some bugs also, which were reported to the proper newsgroups by undoubtedly many other users. In a matter of days, some anonymous user had fixed the problems.
Advantages of OSS for the average joe? I see plenty.
