RMS, Free software and the Ubuntu CDs

[Alexander Skwar]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> Well this sub-thread started when Michael asserted that 80% of
> beta-stuff on Sourceforge was less feature-ful than commercial
> equivalents, so the specific case of evince proves nothing other than
> evince is improving all the time.

And it rather proves that Michael was wrong. evince is still at a
0.x version level. This means, that it's not yet (completely) ready
(whatever the evince guys consider as "complete"). Now, because
of that, it's a prove of the high quality of even pre-release
FLOSS software.

> There is an apparancy that quality is
> higher with commercial

There *is*? I disagree. There's just too much unstable pre-beta
grade "stable" commercial software out there.

> reality. Commercial quality is higher on average on things marked "beta"
> but that's probably because of different POVs on what constitutes a beta

Okay. We've got dissenting opinions, I guess.

Alexander Skwar
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