Michael Harpe wrote:
What I have always been curious about is this: how many of you actually take
advantage of the open source? In other words, how many of you really take the
source code and do something with it?
Personally I don't. I can program in C, i'm pretty good at it. I've just never
felt the need to alter the software I use. I'm fine with waiting for the new
versions as they come out.
I'm really not trying to start a fight. I am just curious. I love free
software. I think the free software movement has enabled a lot of people who
could not afford to operate a computer to do so. Having Linux source code
available has trained a generation of system programmers. There's no disputing
the value of free, open source software.
Anyway, that's my question. Feel free to respond to me directly.
Mike Harpe
Sellersburg, IN USA
I can't say my company is intensively modifying code, but we do make
mods for our internal use for apps like MRTG, Nagios and such. We're
also pretty active filing bug reports and testing patches for various
things. Okay, at least I am. We're a small shop and networking is our
core business (we're a non-profit ISP in NC) so we deal a lot with
monitoring software, which in some case requires some creative changes
to make it do things we want it to do. Being the Sr. SysAdmin here, I'm
responsible for a large part of that, but it's more of a team effort
here for things.
Not to mention all the custom work I've done on updating RPMs for newer
OS versions of things we use here. Although that is becoming less an
issue now. Our main work is in modifying monitoring software to fit our
needs.
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415
Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support
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