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  3. January 2004

RE: IFS object attributes

> From: Pete Hall
> 
> The projects on SourceForge are not shareware. They're open source.
> There's a big difference. You not only have access to the project
> team, but you have access to the source.

> Caviat emptor.

This is actually not quite appropriate, since you're not buying
anything, including any sort of support contract.

I think of it this way: it's 3AM, my system is down, and the piece
that's broken is Open Source from SourceForge.  Who exactly am I going
to call?

A company that puts mission critical systems on Open Source software
gets exactly what they pay for.

This is not to say all Open Source projects are that way.  There are
Open Source projects that are fully supported, such as IBM's JTOpen.
But those are few and far between.

Joe

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