The Problem with Open Source
in the early evening on Monday, the 31st of March 2008 by Chad
Look at this product announcement.
Wireshark: Wireshark 1.0 Released
I’m proud to announce the release of Wireshark 1.0. This is the culmination of nearly ten years of hard work by a team of brilliant and talented developers. It is an honor to be able to work with these people.
On behalf of the development team, I would like to thank Wireshark’s user community for all of your enthusiasm and support over the years. Wireshark development will continue, and we have lots of great features to offer in the coming years.
Ummm it took a bunch of pot smoking commie hippies open source developers only 10 years to get to the first non-beta release of the software! I kid a bit, because Wireshark and Ethereal before it is great software. But it should have been set to version 1.0 about 9 years ago.
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April 1st, 2008 at 10:42 am
While very true…if it was done 9 years ago, it would have cost $1,100 per seat like other closed source sniffers.
April 2nd, 2008 at 1:56 pm
I’m not familiar with the app, but I use a lot of Open Source programs and I’ve often wondered why they tend to be at version zero-point-something even when they’re better than the available commercial apps.
My guess is that a good coder is never fully satisfied with his work, and that commercial software companies use version numbers as a marketing tool rather than as an indicator of the level of development. So if a coder has a choice, as long as he suspects there’s a bug somewhere or there’s a feature he hasn’t implemented, he won’t GA his work.