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AlexMax
07-21-2002, 11:40 AM
I need a page that is full of reasons why Windows is better than Linux...or why Closed Source is better than open source.

Have I gone mad?

No, I am just working on a paper about Closed Source vs. Open Source, and i need some solid information (preferably in the form of a thesis, with citations), and some solid information from the Closed Source camp.

Thanks...

slothman
07-21-2002, 12:28 PM
Well I can't give it in a thesis form but 1 reason why closed could be better than open is actually related to ZC. If ZC were open then everybody would know how to look at quests and passwords would be meaningless.

Saffith
07-21-2002, 01:24 PM
Hard to find much on that. Especially since IE crashes every few times I try to search. (Really, it does.)

These are the best I could find:
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/r/p/rpp124/openandclosed.htm
http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/i/j/ijh102/group5ppt_files/frame.htm

Not much on either, but at least it's something.
Several pages also came up with this article (http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=1999-02-15-003-10-OP). Useless, perhaps, but kinda funny.

Menokh
07-21-2002, 02:59 PM
I can think of one solid reason why closed source is better. not better for the consumer, but for the company. the companies can make much more money off of it.

and Saffith, I like that last article. Shows the bad points in windows through a positive sounding essay.
And that top link says a closed source program must workreally well before being released; well what happenned with windows?