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Re:When Free Software isn't better by psawaya on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:07PM (#1997682)
Some free software is part of a commercial product, and is usually very well documented and reliable. Think WebKit, Firefox, Rails, and Google's many open source contributions.
Re:When Free Software isn't better by epo on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:42PM (#1997794)
Yes, and that just reinforces what I said. Free software done by pros is, mostly, done to professional standards, that done by amateurs is mostly done to amateurish standards.
Re:When Free Software isn't better by psawaya on Sunday December 12, 2010 @02:59PM (#1997840)
What defines a professional or amateur, though? If you define a professional as someone that contributes to software as part of their paid work (and an amateur as anyone else), then Linux and GCC were both begun by amateurs, and are now maintained partly by professionals. Likewise, many projects are begun by professionals and receive contributions from amateurs.