An elephant's graveyard (for the web)

Submitted by Texas Toast on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 01:42

Earlier today, a friend showed It Died,  a graveyard for web applications, open source applications and free applications.  A lot of people I know are using this as a way to crow about how proprietary and closed source stuff is better and more secure...Their arg is basically that when you buy from a company that sells the software itself, it's much more likely that the product will last, and that you won't have invested a lot of time and effort in developing your solutions around a product that's likely to disappear.

Bullshit. Total. Utter. Bullshit.  There are all kinds of products and services that people sell that simply don't make it, and the fact that they don't let you see their code is no guarantee that they'll survive.  Think about Eudora or Novell Netware.  Seen anything running those lately?

God, the stupidity just overwhelms me sometimes.

Texas Toast 

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