Re: A few comments about Knoppix 5.1

[Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@oucs.ox.ac.uk>]

Ronny Standtke wrote:
> Do you really think that I must say "a model of distributed effort by 
> programmers not being paid for the work" when we mean the same thing? 
but I don't think we do mean the same thing. To you,
"open source" seems to imply a development model;
to me, it implies a licensing model.

> And by 
> the way... many Open Source developers are paid for their work.
>   
well, yes. but I thought you were describing the situation
of the volunteers more interested in coding than testing.
>   
> > But it is a very unreasonable calumny to imply that all open source software 
> > suffers from  lack of testing!
> >     
>
> Who said that?
>   
er, you implied it with your sentence "The Open Source

development model lacks in a very important area: TESTING."

>   
> > Many projects take testing extremely seriously.
> >     
>
> My experience is exactly the opposite.
Sure, we all have varying experiences of different software
packages. I would say, however, that that the correlation
between "open source" and "software which has not
been tested properly" is unreasonable.

Incidentally, you folks rushing off to Apple,
is Ubuntu not a plausible option? Out of the box,
it seems to me to simply work. But maybe it
depends what you use a computer for.

Sebastian Rahtz