Re: A few comments about Knoppix 5.1

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

Ronny Standtke wrote:
> This seems to become a thread about nitpicking words but I try to answer 
> anyway...
>   
true. we shouldn't be annoying the other Debian knoppix folks
like this, but hey its the new year.....
> To me "Open Source Development Model" means many things together, including 
> free licenses, distributed development, stressed volunteers, fed up users and 
> much more.
>   
that's fine, because you say "to me". To me, it means
something different.
> > 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.
> >     
>
> So where is the big test lab?
>   
if "open source" was a large software company,
or an organised project, that question
would make sense. But it's neither, it's a political/social
movement/attitude/economic model.
It's like asking "you people who are anti-war,
where is your reseach centre and library?". Whatever
else it is, "open source" is not a single entity.

Technically, the answer is probably "at IBM
and Sun", as very very large contributors to open source
projects :-}

Sorry about Ubuntu and your camera!


sebastian