#0 is priceless. Freeware vs crapware vs malware vs shareware. Your great debunker with this one is skype, which is free, but (ethical issues of it's recent reverse engineering aside) it is clearly not open source. Thumbs up to that. Freedom isn't free! #7 would be a curious myth, in that it's proponents include the open source community itself. It's so easy to get caught navel gazing. How on earth do you even plan on rating these, Robert? So much of it is pervasive, I'm having trouble imagining a metric that could meaningfully be used to rank them. What is your target audience? Sent from a locked proprietary device. I'm working on my freedom and I'll be there one day. On 2011-06-28, at 9:39 AM, George Standish <george [ dot ] standish [ at ] gmail [ dot ] com> wrote: > <generally unhelpful reply follows> > >> On 11-06-28 08:25 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>> >>> a colleague wants to write an article along the lines of the most >>> pernicious myths about open source software. so, in your opinion, >>> what would those be? let's stick to the top five, along with their >>> brutal and savage debunking. thanks. >>> >>> rday > > #0. "open-source" is a synonym of "free software". It isn't. > >> On 28/06/11 08:35 AM, Shawn H Corey wrote: > >> #1. Open-source is written by amateurs and must be very-low quality. >> >> #2. Open-source can only imitate, not innovate. >> >> #3. Open-source is harder to use. >> >> #4. Open-source is harder to install. >> >> #5. You get what you pay for: open-source can not be used to do real work. > > #6. Open-source guarantees better code. This is often NOT the case, but > isn't an issue to the Free Software world. > > #7. Open-source leads to greater collaboration. Most projects on > Sourceforge have but one contributor. > > #8. Open-source is a movement. It's a development model, Free Software > is the movement. > > George > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux