Comment by rpastuszak
2 years ago
I had this moment of cognitive dissonance when I noticed that one colleagues would use "open source" as a synonym for "poor quality". Context: I was working as a contractor, for a bank. That colleague was managing a bunch of *nix instances used to deploy our web services.
Because open source projects are not products per se. If you use mostly a proprietary software, open source project can be perceived as "poor quality product".