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----------------------------------------------------------- From: spark Message 6 in Discussion rakesh, i had just been through your site Open Source Links I was never a great supporter of Open Source. Yet, once I browsed throrugh www.codeproject.com, the far-reach and programming support I saw, changed my mind. I now have some of my works open source whose links are provided below. QuickView I needed to drop a word about this - 'open source' specifically refers to a movement where code is developed in conformance to a 'open source' specified 'valid' 'open source' license. try to understand this : this refers to methodology of software development for the benefits of the having the actual software as the end materialistic gain in conformance to a licensing principle. this does Not mean that any application fow which code is available is 'open source' - as is often the tunnel vision developed in colleges. open source as a movement in a polictically different camp from 'free software' as a movement - i am not going to discuss this here and now. coming back to the sense you used 'open source' - codeproject is not an open source site : in some senses it is a site that hosts a lot of public domain code : public domain (or PD) as a movement existed much before the 'open source' term was coined. here is their defintion, read slowly: http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php to quote one more example microsoft has released code for and ecma standard CLI, under a license called the 'shared source' license - this is not open source though the code is available. why this is important to understand is very few people understand or care about the depth or nature of the difference of these philosphies and what their implications are. ok rakesh, nice to know that you are still in college - learn hard. i passed out in 2002 :) this might make you a better programmer if you see it in its right sense: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/taoup/html/ch01s06.html good to see you on the framework. rosh ----------------------------------------------------------- To stop getting this e-mail, or change how often it arrives, go to your E-mail Settings. http://groups.msn.com/bdotnet/_emailsettings.msnw Need help? If you've forgotten your password, please go to Passport Member Services. http://groups.msn.com/_passportredir.msnw?ppmprop=help For other questions or feedback, go to our Contact Us page. http://groups.msn.com/contact If you do not want to receive future e-mail from this MSN group, or if you received this message by mistake, please click the "Remove" link below. On the pre-addressed e-mail message that opens, simply click "Send". Your e-mail address will be deleted from this group's mailing list. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
