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author | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-11-08 21:28:48 +0000 |
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committer | Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com> | 2006-11-08 21:28:48 +0000 |
commit | c4c5b1586cea54378ab2e94aedbdb129f6bcf162 (patch) | |
tree | 3dbc4d9c8e149636d96be59255d9803cce41a42b /www/for-vendors.html | |
parent | c2368619c536a268af90832592eebf7e240639d4 (diff) | |
download | gpsd-c4c5b1586cea54378ab2e94aedbdb129f6bcf162.tar.gz |
Minor fixes to the page for vendors.
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diff --git a/www/for-vendors.html b/www/for-vendors.html index dff69860..bc239101 100644 --- a/www/for-vendors.html +++ b/www/for-vendors.html @@ -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> |