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fender1212 Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:40 am Post subject: open source statistics |
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alright, well i'm doing this debate for school, anyway, i'm using open source vs. closed source in it, basically, i need pages that show statistics, and hard facts that open source is better than closed source. any help is very appreciated |
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codergeek42 Bodhisattva
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:45 am Post subject: |
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Perhaps you may want to skim/read The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond. It dicusses the advantages of the open development model, where source code can have many thousands of people worldwide looking at it, fixing it, and improving it, over the Proprietary software model, where only a select few every look at the code and know what it does and how to maintain it or fix it. _________________ ~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
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fender1212 Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 3:55 am Post subject: |
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naw, i know all the arguements, i just need hard facts and statistics to back me up |
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Sven Vermeulen Retired Dev
Joined: 29 Aug 2002 Posts: 1345 Location: Mechelen, Belgium
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:42 am Post subject: |
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With statistics you can prove everything. Be sure that your opponent will very likely have similar statistics proving him right.
Anyway, don't forget to read up on Get the Facts (Microsoft). It's not only mandatory to know everything about your subject, you also need to know (and counterproof) the opponent's arguments. |
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fender1212 Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:49 am Post subject: |
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yes i've read get the facts, i know all the arguements., i just need statistics for my side |
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placeholder Advocate
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 4:57 am Post subject: |
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Statistics: I am 50% more awesome than virtually all people without having to use Linux or anything like of that nature.
Oh yeah... for open source software. Well, I really do not see what statistics you are looking for. Could you elaborate? |
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fender1212 Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:02 am Post subject: |
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statistics that show that open-source technologies advance at a faster rate than closed source technologies |
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WhyteWolf Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:11 am Post subject: |
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theres lies, damn lies, and Statistics
what exatly are you looking for in your homewor^H^H^H^H^H^H research _________________ Thomas Phipps
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codergeek42 Bodhisattva
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:46 am Post subject: |
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http://www.sourceforge.net/
Gaim, phpBB, ipw2{1,2}00, etc, ALSA, VNC, Putty, etc. Stuff that's used by millions of people worldwide because it's faster, more reliable, and more capable. All open-source (as defined by the OSI). _________________ ~~ Peter: Programmer, Mathematician, STEM & Free Software Advocate, Enlightened Agent, Transhumanist, Fedora contributor
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Suicidal l33t
Joined: 30 Jul 2003 Posts: 959 Location: /dev/null
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 5:59 am Post subject: |
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How about netcraft, and the city of munich? |
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ewan.paton Veteran
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:19 am Post subject: |
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why not use one of thouse pages that show *bsd and linux uptime in years, in the server game every second down is lots of money and lossing money is bad so linux is better than windows
failing that you could just print off a few hundred pages of unfixed windows bugs and talk about root/user seperation and how because linux has no comercial preasures as such it could impliment this _________________ Giay tay nam | Giay nam cao cap | Giay luoi |
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scooterphish n00b
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 7:43 am Post subject: |
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90% of all statistics are made up on the spot. _________________ Toshiba Satellite A65-S126, Gentoo 2004.2 |
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Ari Rahikkala Guru
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BlackEdder Advocate
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 8:47 am Post subject: |
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Ari Rahikkala wrote: | http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html |
That one should give you all the facts you need. shame a lot of the facts are over 2 years old though |
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codergeek42 Bodhisattva
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fender1212 Apprentice
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:12 pm Post subject: |
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Ari Rahikkala wrote: | http://www.dwheeler.com/oss_fs_why.html |
thank you very much, it helped out alot |
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johntramp Guru
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Posted: Fri Oct 15, 2004 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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scooterphish wrote: | 90% of all statistics are made up on the spot. | oh, I heard it was 72% |
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nightm4re Guru
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Posted: Sat Oct 16, 2004 11:49 am Post subject: |
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a big statistic could be the dominating market share of apache compared to its competitors like IIS and such... _________________ Nitrogen - GtkMM based background setter/restorer, please test!
Minuslab | d.minuslab.net |
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