Re: New CMS Forum

 > IMO, this is half-assed backwards. You ought to start with the major 
*open source* (OS) CMS's because OS
 > always _eventually_ prevails over proprietary software. The most 
promising of the OS CMS's are Plone,
 > OpenCMS, and Bricolage. Covering proprietary software is a mistake 
because many forms of such software are
 > doomed -- OS will destroy them.

I believe that open-source has its place alongside closed source.

For example there is no open-source CMS like some of the propietary ones 
today.
Closed-source is more about having something now when companies urgently 
need
something and are ready to pay big sums for it.

At the same time open-source tends to mature inexorably
towards very elegant design, robustness, etc.

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Well, at least compared with M$ products.
OS/2 (IBM's competition to MS Windows),
even way back in 1995,
was very robust and almost never crashed.
It was the difference between a brand new Merc and an old Lada.
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Something like evolution.
This is similar to the competition (and survival of the fittest)
among proprietary systems but with the ability to borrow
freely at the tiniest level without any red tape
(sexual reproduction vs asexual reproduction : bio scientists
will tell you that sexual reproduction, crossing of code,
is superior).

But this (open-source quality) takes time because o/s is not built to 
hard deadlines
but rather depends on the free-labour resouces available for the task, 
and the
satisfaction of the developers (that the product is ready for GA).

But proprietary systems do create an early awareness in the first place,
thru their advertising, well-developed market research, etc.

Also, proprietary software does pay programmers far more than does
open source development ...

At the same time because there are many bad guys among clients who may
need kickbacks proprietary systems with a price tag will always have their
place.

A large number of profit-making companies have taken the open-source
road in at least some areas. Many of them allow their development staff 
to work
on open-source projects part-time.

(and so on)

Both, open- and closed-source, have their permanent place next to each 
other.

I think closed source is definitely bad when monopolies
make huge profits on poor-quality code.

just my 2 c.

Alec

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