Open Source (was Don't you just wish Rev would do this?)

Chipp Walters chipp at chipp.com
Wed Jun 6 23:25:13 EDT 2007


On 6/6/07, Samuel M. Smith <smithsm at samuelsmith.org> wrote:
>
> The problem I have with runrev is not open source per se but that
> with a paid model the incentive
> is for the developer to release "feature" updates that sound good to
> justify paying upgrade fees but
> that for the most part are not nearly as valuable to a developer as
> maintaining stable quality code.
> Mature open source on the other hand has the opposite incentive,
> stable code and only add features that
> people are willing to invest time in to get so you get a different
> evolution of features over time.


Brilliant.



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