[nycbug-talk] interesting read

[alex at pilosoft.com]

On Sat, 21 May 2005, Matthew Terenzio wrote:

> I don't understand the whole argument. If the general consensus in the
> Healthcare industry was that a certain product was best and it was open
> source, I'd trust my life to it. If it was closed source, I would too.
> There is no necessary relationship between license and quality, but many
> here probably feel that peer review makes better software. It's just
> probably not that likely that a community would grow around a pacemaker
> product because they are all building real important things like
> Podcasters. : )
Finally someone who doesn't have knee-jerk reaction "open source good,
proprietary bad". I'm somewhat surprised to response from this list
regarding my comment about open-source/healthcare - I'd expect that much
flame if it was nylxs, not nycbug ;)

-alex