[QUFB]

With all due respect to the author here, the arguments presented aren't particularly compelling.

> Apologists for proprietary software like to say, “free software is a nice dream, but we all know that only the proprietary system can produce reliable products. A bunch of hackers just can't do this.”

Absolutely no one says this anymore. In 2014, when the article was written, almost no one would say it.

> Barton P. Miller and his colleagues tested the reliability of Unix utility programs in 1990 and 1995. Each time, GNU's utilities came out considerably ahead.

That's great, but it's 2020 now.

The FSF has done awesome work, but they might be better served presenting modern research and evidence about the reliability of free software.

[duckerude]

> In 2014, when the article was written

The original version was written in 1997: https://web.archive.org/web/19980126190044/http://www.gnu.or...

Pages like these should still be kept up to date, of course.

[boomboomsubban]

>Absolutely no one says this anymore. In 2014, when the article was written, almost no one would say it.

The sentiment is echoed multiple times in this thread, maybe shifted a bit to account for the clear examples of success available today.

[muppetman]

That was exactly how I felt too. The examples given were laughable. I get that those are simple programs and it's easier to test them, but if you can't test the bigger/harder stuff easily, how can you make a claim as to which is better?