Tonnerre Lombard wrote:
Salut, Per,
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:41:47 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
I am 99% an open source _user_, and I have only written very few
patches. Which proves my point, I think.
So let me summarize. The fact that we all can fix things and only a few
people do it means
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Subject: Re: [swinog] open source illusions
Silvan Gebhardt wrote:
I guess it's not about Fixing but also expanding
small example: I use a extension to my gnome panel called SSH Menu
I can add hosts which it opens me a ssh session in a terminal just by
clicking on the menu entry
Hello!
Am 07.10.08 14:33 schrieb Jeroen Massar unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Better then to pay the closed source folks and let them do it, as they
will also maintain the changes for yo.
Each day I work with Open Source and Closed Source tools and applications.
Usually I see commercial software
Guazzoni Daniele, CH wrote:
Open does not implicitly mean crap and closed also don’t mean automatically
good...
Actually I'm sick and tired
I hope you get better soon *wink*
of discussions regarding opensource as most of the time they just
flame up (as here).
See the subject line that I
Beat Rubischon wrote:
Hello!
Am 07.10.08 14:33 schrieb Jeroen Massar unter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Better then to pay the closed source folks and let them do it, as they
will also maintain the changes for yo.
Each day I work with Open Source and Closed Source tools and applications.
Usually
Tonnerre Lombard wrote:
Salut, Per,
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:24 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for
those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last
_had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open
Silvan Gebhardt wrote:
I guess it's not about Fixing but also expanding
small example: I use a extension to my gnome panel called SSH Menu
I can add hosts which it opens me a ssh session in a terminal just by
clicking on the menu entry.
now I wanted to expand that to include RDP
Tonnerre Lombard wrote:
I think that the advantage of Open Source does indeed lie in the fact
that you have the ability to fix things yourself,
Hi Tonnerre
fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for
those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you
I guess it's not about Fixing but also expanding
small example: I use a extension to my gnome panel called SSH Menu
I can add hosts which it opens me a ssh session in a terminal just by
clicking on the menu entry.
now I wanted to expand that to include RDP Sessions - okay - took the
code, and
Silvan Gebhardt wrote:
I guess it's not about Fixing but also expanding
small example: I use a extension to my gnome panel called SSH Menu
I can add hosts which it opens me a ssh session in a terminal just by
clicking on the menu entry.
now I wanted to expand that to include RDP
Hoi Beat,
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:07:45 +0200
Beat Rubischon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The major advantage for OpenSource is the visibility of the code - no code
monkey is able to hide 20 years old buggy crap when he needs to provide the
sources. Believe me, this is a great motivation for a lot
Salut, Per,
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008 14:01:24 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for
those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last
_had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open source
project?
Being a
Salut, king of the huns,
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008 16:40:13 +0200, Attila Kinali wrote:
Anyone who has ever written more than a few lines of C code knows
that gcc is crap... unfortunately, it's the best compiler out there.
The comercial compilers usualy segfault at every second file of my
favorite
Marc Balmer wrote:
actually indent(1), a program to indent and format C program source
bears a copyright from 1976:
* Copyright (c) 1976 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
32 years. And still useful. And this is the oldest copyright I could
find in an operating system
* on the Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 02:01:24PM +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
fixing something yourself is also pretty much an illusion, except for
those few people who are sufficiently involved. When have you last
_had_ to fix anything yourself in a stable release of any open source
project?
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