Re: A question for the open source people

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Frank Cox <theatre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:47:29 -0700 (PDT)
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?

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.

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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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