Worse Is Better Talk

Does Worse Is Better Require Open Source?


--- WeNeedExamples

An Open Source Example

Do The Right Thing Versus Worse Is Better in Line of Business Software for Your Enterprise

Quality? A Good Fit? The other way The open source twist here is that WorseIsBetter can only fly in your organization (instead of killing your organization's IT capabilities) if you do WorseIsBetter with 100% open source free software. Otherwise Worse is always Worse.

-- WPostma (with a little help from the Gnomes)


Despite being something of a free software advocate, I think this doesn't necessarily follow. Obvious example:

-- DanBarlow

And 'hackable' means that you have to have the source code, and that seems to be what the original auther meant by OpenSource.

Doesn't even need that. Lisp vs. C (one of the original examples) didn't depend on a hackable C compiler.

Uhh...are we discussing compilers and IDEs, or user-ready products?


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