Rick Ross summarizes one of the big problems with proprietary software:
Those of us on the outside have no access to the particulars of the settlement and have no way to know whether Sun has sold us out.
On a recent adventure attempting to install the SubVersion client on Laura’s iMac, I complained (some said whined, I didn’t mean to whine) that sometimes assembling and configuring Open Source software was hard, but soon confessed that the problem was primarily me, failing to careful read and follow the instructions. With determination, care, a good [...]
