Lets face it...FOSS has got more features than any of its proprietary counterparts. There is a reason for it and apparently as a developer I've realized it. It so happens that proprietary softwares are developed inside an organization where developer is restricted to think. Developer is actually a moron inside most of the IT companies where he is to do what is requirement which is decided by market survey. Probably this survey is too old or may be it has incorrect observations. But developer has just to look into requirements and design software. He cant use his imagination, ideas, innovation etc in project. Hence it has got limited functionalities. But when it comes to open source, developer is at liberty to explore his ideas and creativity. Sky is also not limit to the features that developer can add to FOSS. Developer works for money in company but FOSS developers work for themselves. They work for satisfaction and of course geekism is the motive.
People do complain that there are bugs in FOSS. If we use proprietary software then we get good technical support. But while making such statements they don't realize that actually when using proprietary software, they are actually rejecting huge support from FOSS community which is probably 100 times the size of any technical support team in company. Bugs are solved faster in FOSS software than in proprietary ones. And of course they should be, as the number of developers working on FOSS software are huge as compared to small team working on any proprietary software.
On the top of this, developers/organizations do use FOSS to develop proprietary softwares. Extent to which FOSS is used by proprietary software developers is something remarkable. And why does features of open source and proprietary softwares overlap. Well now we know from where exactly proprietary software survey comes from (something is fishy huh). Thats the reason why very few innovative ideas are originated in proprietary softwares. Isn't this difference visible in desktop effects of any linux distro and ***doz Vista? Vista looks like primitive version of compiz/beryl desktop effects.
FOSS really is "by the people, for the people and of the people" which provides freedom in true sense to everybody!!!
On the top of this, developers/organizations do use FOSS to develop proprietary softwares. Extent to which FOSS is used by proprietary software developers is something remarkable. And why does features of open source and proprietary softwares overlap. Well now we know from where exactly proprietary software survey comes from (something is fishy huh). Thats the reason why very few innovative ideas are originated in proprietary softwares. Isn't this difference visible in desktop effects of any linux distro and ***doz Vista? Vista looks like primitive version of compiz/beryl desktop effects.
FOSS really is "by the people, for the people and of the people" which provides freedom in true sense to everybody!!!
