From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Nov 17 13: 1:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2E2237B401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:01:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from freebie.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-101-2-1-14.abo.wanadoo.fr [193.251.59.14]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7327B43E3B for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 13:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Received: from contactdish (contactdish.atkielski.com [10.0.0.10]) by freebie.atkielski.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id gAHL1U923401 for ; Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:01:30 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from anthony@freebie.atkielski.com) Message-ID: <058101c28e7c$80d421b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> From: "Anthony Atkielski" To: "FreeBSD Chat" References: <20021116232242.S23359-100000@hub.org><04f801c28e20$0a3665b0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <3DD7CF81.7030407@cream.org> <056001c28e60$2af21cf0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <1037560276.1094.19.camel@skalman.campus.luth.se> Subject: Re: FreeBSD: Server or Desktop OS? Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 22:01:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2720.3000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mattias writes: > You simply can't stresstest to the point > that customers won't find problems anyway. They should not be seeing problems every 48 hours, as has been indicated here. > That is why the closed source companies have > betatesters and releases betas to the public. Beta testers agree to put up with whatever bugs arise. Often they agree not to use beta software in critical production as well, or at least discharge the vendor from responsibility if they do. > That is realy not an open vs closed source > argument at all. It has a lot to do with it. You can do a lot more with programmers who are paid to work on something full-time than with programmers who have to work on things when they have spare moments and inclinations. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message