Open Source vs. Commercial Software

[Alan Dayley]

Jason,

I am a bit confused by your comment.  Two parts of it seem contradictory
to me.

Jason Spatafore said:
>
> Then you are not an innovator, you are a maintainer. I bet you'd rather
> learn
> the quirks of the existing software, and keep those "solutions" to
> yourself
> (Proprietary software maintainer), rather than figure out a way to get rid
> of
> those quirks by collaborating with others (Open Source Software
> Developer).

This sounds like you are saying OSS developers are innovators, not
maintainers.  Then you said,

> Who wants to invent "new and exciting" stuff? No, Open Source isn't about
> providing "all the features in the world" (that's MS's department with
> Windows Media Edition, etc), it's about perfecting the current stuff and
> making it stable.
>
> Until people realize that Open Source isn't about "new and exciting" but
> more
> along the lines of "more stable and easier to use", the Open Source
> movement
> can't attach itself greatly to the IT market....because most of the IT
> market
> has been FUD'ed.

which sounds like the opposite of innovators.

I'm probably just picking-nits here but this contrast caught my eye.

Alan