On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was just reading a comment on slashdot (don't have time to quote it) but it was along this lines of: the greatest benefit is that the people who have the time / ability to take advantage of open source can.
All the software on my home machine is open source. I havn't taked advantage of this directly (though plan to) but I'd be interesting to see the state of each product I use if it had been released closed source. This is my advantage in using open source.
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:47:29 -0700 (PDT)In terms of actual source code that I have submitted for the "public good", the
Michael Harpe <mharpe79@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What I have always been curious about is this: how many of you actually take advantage of the open source? In other words, how many of you really take the source code and do something with it?
only things I can think of in the past couple of years are a (very) small
contribution to xmame, a credit card verification thing and a
special-purpose string comparison routine. Nothing of any interest to 99+% of
people around here, though, and xmame isn't, strictly speaking, an open source
project within the currently accepted meaning of the term.
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I was just reading a comment on slashdot (don't have time to quote it) but it was along this lines of: the greatest benefit is that the people who have the time / ability to take advantage of open source can.
All the software on my home machine is open source. I havn't taked advantage of this directly (though plan to) but I'd be interesting to see the state of each product I use if it had been released closed source. This is my advantage in using open source.
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