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join:2003-09-14
Saint Paul, MN
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in my opinion i havnt quite thought about drivers being open source but if third parties have improved some things on the router then why wouldnt companies make a base version of the drivers...then say OK...heres an open source model of the same thing...geek out there...go nuts
i like that but would it actually happen???
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Talis
join:2001-06-21
Houston, TX
| That whole comment about turning over driver development to the open source world is just a troll. I'll bite, I guess.
The company screwed up a firmware upgrade. Don't you think comments like this are just an over-reaction to the issue? What makes the author believe that any open-source project to maintain and develop these drivers would have prevented this?
Comments like this infuriate me. They equate problem code with commercial development and immaculately conceived, flawlessly executing code with open-source, communal development. Open source code can stink just as much, if not more, than commercial code.
I can guarantee you that what matters most, much more than whether a commercial enterprise wrote the code or some group of uber-geeks on a mountain-top, are the controls put in place to ensure quality. If those don't exist, neither group will come close to writing software that works. |
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Zoder
join:2002-04-16
Miami, FL
| I don't want to get into the open source debate but it should be noted that in D-Link's case they have had a number of problems with their recent firmware and drivers for the G series products that should have never made it past QA. Just take a look at the topics in the forum over the past few months whenever a new firmware/driver was released.
Some bugs are understandable but a number of these have been product crippling bugs. |
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