[NLedu] Researching accessibility of Silverlight-based websites

[Kees Epema]

Free software is better quality:

- Community members want to write better code, because it can be reviewed
by other community-members

- There is no pressure  to release software within a given time

- The first aim is to write software that will solve a problem

Prop. software is inferior because:

- There is no community to support a project and to guarantee quality code

- There is time pressure and more likeliness to non solved bugs

- First aim is to contribute to business continuity

Kees



2011/11/24 Karsten Gerloff <gerloff at fsfeurope.org>

> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:40:14PM +0100, Kees Epema wrote:
> > Free Software is better quality, because it is open.
>
> not necessarily. There's great proprietary software out there, and
> pretty crappy Free Software.
>
> Free Software generally *can* be of higher quality. But that's not
> necessarily the case.
>
> We'll be more effective if we concentrate on the key feature of
> Free Software -- freedom.
>
> In this case, vendor independence and equal access to the
> education systems are probably the tunes we would want to sing
> the loudest.
>
>
>
> Best regards,
> Karsten
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