On May 18, 2006, at 2:33 PM, James Newtons Massmind wrote:

> But if you aren't going to open source, then you have a
> credibility problem.

"open source" has become a pretty religious subject for some people,
and I would expect a fair number of would-be-commercial SW vendors
to be somewhat offended by the implication that they are less credible
just because they're not open source.  There are certainly plenty of
abandoned or nearly-abandoned open-source projects that are effectively
no more useful than abandoned closed-source projects.  It seems that
SW writers expect open source to lend them credibility, while what
is really needed is that "commitment" someone was talking about.  Too
man people use source availability as an excuse to get out of their
commitment...

(most recently, I submitted a fair set of bugs (with patches)
against AVRA, the Atmel-compatible AVR assembler for unix.  No
response from the project owners...  Sigh.)

BillW

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