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GFS released under the GPLGFS released under the GPLPosted Jun 28, 2004 15:17 UTC (Mon) by vmole (guest, #111)In reply to: GFS released under the GPL by mdekkers Parent article: GFS released under the GPL
No, he's suggesting that while it was proprietary, Sistina was able to devote more resources to developing it, because there was a direct cash stream associated with it. Yes, there is a lot of good, reliable, free software. Some of it took a long time to get that way, because the developers simply could not devote the necessary timei to the project. Also, often the "final polish" part of a project, where you catch all the corner cases, is tedious and non-glamerous. It's lot more fun to start a new project, and since you're doing it for fun anyway, there's no incentive to get the last 1% right. It's all well and good to be in favor of free software. I believe that in the end, you do have a better result, but it can take a while to get there, and ignoring that fact while rah-rah-rahing free software does no one any good.
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