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<blockquote data-quote="Anonymous" data-source="post: 5326">Here is my 2 centsIf an opensource project puts a company out of business, it is there fault for not being competitive.&nbsp; Look around.&nbsp; Firefox, Linux, MediaPortal, Xbox Media Center.All of these programs are so far ahead of their corporate counterparts.&nbsp; Firefox is barely on it's 1.0 release, and IE is on it's 6.0 release.&nbsp; I think you'd have trouble finding many people who would stand behind IE when offered Firefox instead.&nbsp; Look at XBMC.&nbsp; Back when it was XBMP, toms hardware reviewed it <a href="http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20040312/index.html" target="_blank"> (LINK TO ARTICLE)</a> and basically said it was better than anything else out there.&nbsp; I think it still is.And if you want to see companies who are competitive, look at Adobe.&nbsp; They create software that delivers.Opensource drives companies to make better products, and if it puts some of those companies out of business, so be it.&nbsp; It's there fault in the first place for not creating a solid product.&nbsp; I'm just fed up with corperate products and software that apparently never considered the user when it was being created.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anonymous, post: 5326"] Here is my 2 cents If an opensource project puts a company out of business, it is there fault for not being competitive. Look around. Firefox, Linux, MediaPortal, Xbox Media Center. All of these programs are so far ahead of their corporate counterparts. Firefox is barely on it's 1.0 release, and IE is on it's 6.0 release. I think you'd have trouble finding many people who would stand behind IE when offered Firefox instead. Look at XBMC. Back when it was XBMP, toms hardware reviewed it [url=http://www.tomshardware.com/consumer/20040312/index.html] (LINK TO ARTICLE)[/url] and basically said it was better than anything else out there. I think it still is. And if you want to see companies who are competitive, look at Adobe. They create software that delivers. Opensource drives companies to make better products, and if it puts some of those companies out of business, so be it. It's there fault in the first place for not creating a solid product. I'm just fed up with corperate products and software that apparently never considered the user when it was being created. [/QUOTE]

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