On Wed, 2 Nov 2016 17:19:01 +0100 Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I disagree that reading someone's code is a good way to educate > yourself. > Another good way to learn is to go work for a company. ... In which case it will be very likely that browsing through the existing code will be done. One does not want necessarily to do things very differently. And if one chooses to do so, it will be because browsing through the existing code was done and observations were noted. > So, I disagree that you need open source projects to learn. What you > need is a community, not open sourced programs. Yes, although I remember when I did not know about Linux and was working in Windows with MSDN documentation and just about no working source code. Sure, you it is possible to learn everything, but there's also an aspect of time and getting things done. And, not reinventing the wheel. If it's already done, and done in a good way, which ignore it and spend the time doing it again to possibly have only a slight optimization if any at all ? In this regard, having working., from-the-field source code is beneficial. Now, this is not specifically linked to Open Source perhaps, but as the name implies, Open Source is... access to code. If I may be perceived as being not for Open Source, this is not correct. I am for Open Source. What I have something about, is following Phil's statement in the magazine for the reasons a musician would use Open Source, as it was mentioned at the beginning of this thread. Still looking for a good reason why a *musician* would use Linux .... :) _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
