[Clamwin-users] Users and Open Source

[Joshua M. <jos...@gm...>]

David:

I don't want this mailing list to be a soap box for either type of software
production (open source or proprietary), but I must say that I am distasted
by your assumption that my clients are ignorant, consumptive users who care
nothing about the terms by which they are "allowed" to use software created
by a proprietary source.

In fact, I have a few business owners who are excited to learn that a piece
of software they use is open source - not necessarily because it costs less
or enables more flexible use. Rather, they know that are able to work
directly with the developers of a software product (just as we're doing
right here, right now) to fix problems, improve functionality, or expand
features.

I don't know what kind of clients you have to work with - but I am quite the
lucky consultant here in Southwest Virgina, because my clients actually care
whether or not they are using a software product whose developers worked
just to make a buck, or rather to create a more useful, secure, and flexible
technology.

BTW..... What about???


Apache  (used by 50% of the Web)

Firefox  (used by 20% users)

FreeBSD  (used by Yahoo! and once used by Microsoft)

PacketFilter  (used by Chinese government firewall)

SELinux  (created by NSA)

K Desktop Environment  (used by Lowe's Hardware)

SUSE Linux  (used by Wal-Mart)

Linux kernel  (used by Cisco for $ routers)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux  (used by Google)

OpenOffice (used by more than 150 million users and standard in 30
countries)


Is all this just crappy code???

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Joshua S. Martin