Probably the best question is how much experience have you had with open
source. I can only go by what actually is taking place every day with
major programs that have been built and maintained by large numbers of
volunteers and paid staff. Firefox, Apache, Thunderbird, Linux versions,
the
My web site, see signature, is for the development of such a network. Anyone
who wants to work collaboratively on a network is invited to let me know of
their interest.
There is another mailing list where I have discussed the development of a
network. They say managing software developers is like
I am curious as to the negative attitude of ham developers toward open
source development. Many successful applications programs have been open
source have they not?
These include very complicated and advanced programs that are better
than some of the commercial developed closed source
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I am curious as to the negative attitude of ham developers toward open
source
The reason for the open source concept in my mind is to insure
continuity of a project in case of death or disinterest by the initial
developers. I don't buy the too many cooks analogy in any way.
Completely wrong metaphor for software development. No one is in the way
of another, rather they
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The reason for the open source concept
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I am curious as to the negative
Rud,
Running Linux in an old box requires an old version of Linux, matched to
the box contents.
I used RedHat 5.2 on a 486, and 6.2 on a P1. Mostly, text mode, with a
CGA or the older and less voracious GUI, with 1 MB RAM video cards. The
BBS's ran happy with it, and I even did ftp and http
