On Sun, Jul 03, 2011 at 11:14:19AM -0400, wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 11:20:37AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > > i'm not sure firefox is the example i'd want to use right now to > > demonstrate open source's spectacular glory: > > I suggest that sqlite be used as an example instead of firefox. I would have thought Apache would be an obvious example: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2011/01/12/january-2011-web-server-survey-4.html This is a situation where it is running on many Windows servers. > It's install base easily outnumbers all applications that i can think > of. For example, firefox uses it to manage some of it's data storage. > So every firefox install is an installation of sqlite. Many other > applications use sqlite for some form of data storage. > > It's also installed on almost every > pda/cellphone/tablet/pvr/router/gadget/whizbang that has a list of > data to track. This even includes every iPhone and iPod. > > see http://sqlite.org/famous.html for more examples > > This is a clear demonstration that open source software _CAN and DOES... > 1: work well > 2: plays well with others > 3: runs on many platforms > 4: is hugely popular (by count of installations. even if the user is unaware) > > I cannot think of any other project, open source, or closed, that > comes even close to a tiny fraction of this level of achievement. I > also seriously doubt that this achievement is simply not possible as a > closed source implementation. > > Safe bet a significant majority of the folks who feel open source > software is "crap" are unaware that they are most likely using many > products of open source projects every day.. > > -phil slainte mhath, RGB -- Richard Guy Briggs -- ~\ -- ~\ <hpv.tricolour.net> <www.TriColour.net> -- \___ o \@ @ Ride yer bike! Ottawa, ON, CANADA -- Lo_>__M__\\/\%__\\/\% Vote! -- <greenparty.ca>_____GTVS6#790__(*)__(*)________(*)(*)_________________