/With a platform/ like GNU/Linux, on the community-origin side, or
Eclipse, on the corporate-sponsored side, everybody can have it their way by contributing the module they want most. Along the way they’ll note and help fix bugs in the platform. And because a platform is such a broad thing, there are plenty of shallow bugs, and of course “plug-in architecture” means most extensions have no more depth than the sheet of paper you print the API on. But in the case of a focused application, the better it gets, the harder the bugs are, and the more satisfied the majority of community users are. They are necessarily going to lose interest in working on a “good-enough” project and lag in the competence to do so. –Stephen J. Turnbull in “Free Software Business” mailing list, 30 Nov 2005 (my emphasis)
I thought that this quote was nice, and nicely sketches the “advantage” of CBPP for general platforms. The dichotomy may be a little bit strongly stated, but it is an interesting point. Thoughts, anyone? –jcorneli Nov 30 2005