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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2006-11-08 21:28:48 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>2006-11-08 21:28:48 +0000
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@@ -89,12 +89,12 @@ works:</p>
<p>Open-source projects are mostly manned by volunteers attracted to a
particular technical problem; the results are published as source code
-under licenses that encourage free reuse and redistribution, and are
-freely available to all.</p>
+under licenses that encourage free reuse and redistribution, and make the
+code freely available to all.</p>
<p>By harnessing the power of peer review, this process has been
found to lead to a significantly higher average level of code quality
-than conventional propritary development. Open-source developers also
+than conventional proprietary development. Open-source developers also
take pride in their demonstrated ability to respond exceptionally
rapidly to bug reports; it is not at all uncommon for open-source
projects to issue fix patches the same day as a user complaint.</p>
@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ top 5% in ability and experience.</p>
<p>Red Hat and other distribution vendors select and integrate the
work of literally thousands of open-source projects like GPSD to
-produce entire running operating systems of unprecedented high
+produce entire running operating systems of unprecedentedly high
quality.</p>
<p>The main disadvantage of open-source development is that, except
for the small minority that has attracted direct corporate sponsorship
from outfits like Red Hat or major users like IBM, open-source
-projects have no budgets. Also, for philosophical and cultural
+projects have no budgets. Also, for both philosophical and practical
reasons, we do not sign NDAs and in general cannot deal with companies
that absolutely require them.</p>