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POV

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This article only seems to contain arguments against open source / for closed source and their rebuttal. I think it lacks arguments why to use open source in the first place. --212.99.194.14 00:46, 8 August 2005 (UTC)[reply]

yes, this article is extremely one-sided. It essentially takes successful open source projects and then says, "See? They work. Criticism of OSS is wrong!" That's not NPOV. El T 00:29, 8 November 2005 (UTC)[reply]
Definately biased. I'd like to make it a little more objective, but I just don't have the time on my hands right now, maybe an administrator could put a bias warning on the top??
Do you think we should split the page into "pro-open source" and "pro-closed source" kind of like the Windows vs Linux page? Strake 11:55, 29 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I have been trying to add a bunch of more substantive content, including several new sections.So far I haven't done much to touch the existing content, but I think it's time to get rid of the existing "Control" and "Missing technological components" sections, as a start. Ldo 04:37, 1 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Ldo 19:46, 8 February 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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I did massive edits I think may clear some biases. This is horrible. I think some resons this may be so one sided is that Wikipedia is open source. This article however makes me REVOLT at open source. Seriously, this is horrible. Here is my opinion as a Windows User using Firefox. Open Source Less Popular so Less People Look for Holes. More People looking to solve holes then those exploiting. Closed Source Wide use driven by commercial nature. Smaller group fixing holes then those looking.

See? Its pretty simple to me. I dunno though. My honest opinion is that this page is written by a smug Linux user who likes to smell his own farts and say "I am root" and this makes me hate it. This is part of the reason I hate Mac users. SMUGGNESS ONLY RECOILS PEOPLE! I love open source, but this article has to be inforitive. If you guys see anything wrong with my edits, please fix them. I only would like this page to be wiki quality. - 68.228.33.74 04:24, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

They look good so far...may be surgery on a dying patient though. If you're feeling ambitious you might try restructuring from scratch keeping as much of the informative content as possible. Antonrojo 05:08, 12 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]
I am a proud open source fan, but in all seriousness, this article is very open-source slanted in some parts, while very closed-source in other parts. It lacks citations in many places. I am going to do my best to try and help close the gaps, but any assistance would be great - Mr. P 10:39, 14 November 2007 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 169.244.107.66 (talk)

Wikipedia is open-source oriented. If everything is proprietary, wikipedia would not even exist. Mere facts are not biased. Proprietary lovers can make their own proprietary 'Pedia and then not be able to contribute to it nor comment. Mere fact that you can comment and change pages and state facts known to anyone make wikipedia a better place and that requires explanation of differences, to labeling article on top for stating facts and let it stay there since 2005 is political statement and biased itself. (Minikola (talk) 07:04, 23 February 2016 (UTC))[reply]

POV Tag

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This page is ridiculously POV and requires serious cleanup. There is plenty of unsourced "the opens-source community believes..." or "open-source software is often accused of...". The whole article needs a massive rewrite.

Mediaframeworks

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Its not like that all applications on Windows happily use DirectShow. E.g. for music applications there is ASIO as well, nearly each video editing application introduces an own plugin format. I see the situation under Linux a bit cleaner,. First xine and mplayer are not frameworks, they are players. GStreamer and NMM are frameworks. All of the have in common that they include ffmpeg for wide codec coverage.

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