From c4c5b1586cea54378ab2e94aedbdb129f6bcf162 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric S. Raymond" Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 21:28:48 +0000 Subject: Minor fixes to the page for vendors. --- www/for-vendors.html | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'www/for-vendors.html') 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:

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.

+under licenses that encourage free reuse and redistribution, and make the +code freely available to all.

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.

@@ -107,13 +107,13 @@ top 5% in ability and experience.

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.

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.

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