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Originally Posted by Clarion

Reasons why I don't agree that open source is all that great, and that some of you poster's remarks are lame in here:
1. WINDOWS has more copies distributed than Linux
2. ASP.NET is used for business applications more than PHP
3. Microsoft Office is used for documents more than OpenOffice
4. SourceForges project count is up to 95,910, with the vast majority of them unfinished.

This industry is not cromprised of a fan-based ezine sites; it is comprised of businessmen who are treating this as a business to claim their share of the billion-dollar pie. Any company who would pay 20-35K for a good affiliate program wouldn't necessarily pay 5-10K for an addon to or reworking of an open source system. They want exactly what they're paying for. Otherwise, they'd be outsourcing to India.

If there were dozens of free softwares out there, the internet would get even more congested with *hopeless* newbs (not to be confused with people that can actually make it into the biz), which give this industry a bad rep -- it's not a business for them, they're willing to do stupid shit that makes the industry look bad. This is a business for me. Software development is what I do for a living. You come in here and offer a program for free, that I (and any other programmer on here) would offer for tens of thousands of dollars: expect to get flamed and harassed by the men and women who work hard behind the scenes to bring the end-PAYING-user some eye candy.

you really don't understand open source do you
1. There are more windows DESKTOPs than linux DESKTOPs
As microsoft pointed out in their anti trust case if you include all software , server, mainframe embedded devices windows represents 7.56% of the market place.

MORE THAN 1/2 of that is open source (GNU all open source including BSD licienes)

on the internet APACHE (open source) exceeds windows by a huge margin

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2005/02/overallc.gif

2. ASP.net is a frame work not a language, multiple languages can used in it including PHP so of course more application are coded in ASP.net frame work. ASP.net is equal to CGI (common gateway interface). And btw more perl code is created than ASP.NET enable visual c, visual basic code combined.

3. Irrelevant who case, the introduction of open source software like open office has reduce the price of office pro for end users, increase compatiblity with open standards like xml so. Remember Microsoft has vendor lock in with their office application, WHICH DOES NOT EXIST IN EITHER EXAMPLES given. The same thing will happen if an open source affiliate program or tgp software is release (assumeing he can get it within 50% of parity with commerical grade software)

4. And this proves you don't understand the concept of open source, commercial software is released after an alpha , beta cycle. Open source is release at the beginning of the developer cycle. The more people who want to use the software the more developers who will be improving the product.
In a close source enviroment if i find an affiliate program that 15 /20 features i want i have to wait for company who owns the code to determine that it is profitable to add those features. In an open source program i can add those 5 features myself right way. I get to decide when the features get added based on their profitablity to me alone.