On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Frank Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:47:29 -0700 (PDT) > Michael Harpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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? > > In terms of actual source code that I have submitted for the "public good", > the > 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. > > -- > MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@redhat.com > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > 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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