Ross Davey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Of course, as others have said, the code is available for making 
> the required changes yourself, however there is aways the chance that 
> this will 'fork' the product and your changes could become orphan code.

I think the advantage of a product like Argus which is backed by open source 
code is that Horst or others could, if they wanted, make the changes needed to 
accomodate their particular needs immediately while waiting for the Argus 
development team to add the same features to the mainstream product. That is 
not forking, it just temporarily bypasses the (unavoidable) bottleneck 
represented by a single centralised development team. With closed-source 
products, you can't avoid teh bottleneck and you just have to wait, and wait, 
and wait...

Tim C
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