[cspackler]

I can go to my car, open up the hood, study it, pull it apart, put it together, use parts from it in another car. Thats open source.

Yeah, right... and the intake manifold from my Chrysler will bolt right onto my wife's Ford? THAT would be open source. It aint.

[ShadowAce]

...the intake manifold from my Chrysler will bolt right onto my wife's Ford? THAT would be open source.

Wrong. That would be interoperability.

[N3WBI3]

Look, start with the basics before you jump into this. I cant take an open soruce library say from my intel Linux server and port it directly to my wifes g5 OSX or even my Wintel laptop. But I can take it modify it and try to apply it...

You and many others on this thread have no clue what opensource actaully is, so until you do just read a bit..