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HappySqurriel on 07 February 2008
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TheRealMafoo said:
Words Of Wisdom said:
HappySqurriel said:

Open source software quality is heavily dependant on the quality of the people working on the project. Linux (and several other projects) is high quality because it is being developed by academics and many large corporations ...

For the most part, open source projects produced by hobbiests are poorly documented, have huge design flaws and inconsistencies, follow poor coding practices, are buggy, and are generally shitty.


Wow.  Thanks for saving me some time HappySqurriel.


 I would agree if the only use for the CELL was the gaming community. But being it's used in the scientific community as well, useful reusable code will most likely created.


So you think that a program written by a Biology PHD to model the formation of pond scum who has no motivation of making a generally reuseable program, will end up becomming a useable API for a wide variety of applications?