Arminius wrote: |I know a number of non-technically minded computer users who[...] |also turn their noses up at free office suites like Open Office |and would rather pay to get Microsoft Office. | |The mindset is "if it is free it couldn't be any good |or the people who make it would be charging for it". | A recent item points out how mindless that "mindset" is: from the Usenet Archive: Nearly 60 Percent Of (payware) Apps Fail First Security Test (In contrast, note how the Free(dom) Software did.) ...and that reminded me of an older item which shows how the predjudice against FOSS belies the facts: "Coverity Study Ranks LAMP Code Quality" cache of http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3589361 There is no substitute for peer review of code. cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus'_Law#Linus.27_Law_according_to_Eric_S._Raymond
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