Posted on 06/26/2013 10:01:41 AM PDT by ShadowAce
Someday it will be the definition of "citizenship."
you read it here first.
Open source is communism in an application. I can count on one hand the open source projects that are worth anything, the rest are pos. I vehemently oppose any open source stuff embedded into our applications.
The idea of open source was originally as a thumb of the nose at software makers like Microsoft who don’t release their source code. It made the community responsible for the content of the distributions.
If someone takes OSS, modifies it to their needs, and makes money off of it, they don’t owe the originators of that OSS any money. AS a matter of fact, that’s explicit in the GNU license agreement.
The OSS people are not anti-capitalist, they’re pro-responsibility. I trust open source more that I do MS or Apple.
The people responsible for maintaining and monitoring the code are the original whistleblowers if someone tries to deploy a distro with malicious code.
Then why are you on the internet? Why are you on FR?
Incorrect. FOSS was the original code profile. MS came along and started selling their code--much to the chagrin of the rest of the developer community.
/johnny
OK I wouldn’t go that far, there are many good open-source projects...
But the open source FANATICS think all software should be free for the masses!!
Most of these freaks I have met work on their pet open-source project while getting paid by someone else to do other things. We had one programmer who always spent half his day workign on an ‘esperonto’ translator...
When you ask them who will feed their children if they were required to program for free- how do they make money? they answer “TECH SUPPORT”!!!
I guess tech support for the crapware they write should NOT be “free for the masses”
He’s also having trouble finding coders. Maybe these are connected?
The correct term for them is “users”. Thinking that everybody using your product should “contribute” to it’s development in someway is one of the things that tells the laymen that make up the majority of your target audience they aren’t actually in your target audience.
Does it?
I see this at the bottom of the page:
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One of the things I see missing is the potential of hundreds of thousands of people with the potential, due to experience and ability to become contributors, but somewhat removed from the "computer science" field.
Aside from formal colleges and paid schools, in addition to interest, what is missing is some sort of on line beginners, intermediate and advanced training, with real world problems to solve as part of the process.
I know I am interested, as well as many others.
Prior knowledge of astronomy, mathematics and engineering can't hurt. I know the pool is out here. For these people, sharing is never a problem.
FR is not an application that ties into our business model. I do not piggy back of FR for any technological ideas. I come here to listen and sometimes speak.
That wasn’t my understanding, but I am admittedly ignorant of the open source roots. I took my cues from popular collegiate sympathy for open source. I’m in my early 30s, so I came into Linux prior to its popularity.
Would you agree, however, that the open source community has grown into an organic community of self-checking programmers and hackers (non-malicious incarnation of hacker in this case)?
/johnny
Plus I don’t feed my family on the internet/FR.
The application was perhaps written in c/c++ as well--compilers are open source.
If your application is internet-aware or -capable, then it relies heavily on open source software.
Do you use putty for any connections? FOSS.
SSH? FOSS.
My point is that you can't get away from it. It's all around, and you rely on it quite a bit more than you may know.
Ah! That makes sense.
It is all C# with some T-SQL. The MS C++ we have left is quickly being gutted. I said I will not embed any open source into our app. I am firmly aware of how TCP/Ip and other protocols work I have been doing this for over 25 years and started before the internet craze.
The only browsers we support are IE and Firefox (yes I know) but they are entered externally. We do not use any of that code internally.
No putty.
Yes and most of the problems we do have is the crap we have to talk to.
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