I have a comment on the "Open source is better" reply.
My product,
GuildFTPd, an FTP server for windows, is a closed source application. That has not stopped it from becoming the best FTP server available on Tucows.com, Download.com, and many other sites. Sure, there are bugs, but I say that the original programmer knows his code best, and can fix the problems faster, than any other person could. (Given the education) Sure, SOME open source applications do get more features added faster, but that does not make them problem proof.... it just helps to make the program progress faster.
I say that some programs should be open source, and some should not. I say that Windows should not be open source, because that would just make things run slower. Take Linux for example. I have Windows XP installed on a Pentium II 266, with 64 Megs of ram. It runs like a top, YET, Redhat, mandrake, and a couple of other distro's for Linux run like crap. They take over 2 minutes to start up, and they run slow. Sure, they may be stable, but they are slow; not only that, but my 850 AMD Athlon processor, with 256 Megs of rammed CAN “T EVEN RUN Linux... it crashes at random when trying to start up. I had to get another PC to learn Linux, because every time I tried to start it up, it would crash on my main PC. I'm not saying that Linux is like this on everyone's PC, I'm just saying it is like that on mine, and that Windows has never given me a problem installing, ever.
So maybe that’s why I don't like open source, but everyone is up to their own opinion.
-Nitro
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