RE: GPL & commercial software, the critical distinction (fwd)

Jim Choate wrote:

I'd say the obvious one, the Unix code tree is more stable than the MS tree.

Sure, but does that mean the MS platform was less suitable than Unix, or their MS platform programmers were inferior to their Unix counterparts. I believe Netscape outsourced the Unix development, at least initially. I would blame insufficient SQA at Netscape, and from what I've heard that claim is justified. Matt