On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:42 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 1:34 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> A lot do. A lot of software is being written for reasons other than >> financial motivation. For example a Finnish college kid named Linus >> Torvalds wrote the basis of an operating system for the fun of it. The >> upside of this is there is a lot of software available for free, the >> downside is that if you want to sell your software, it's tough to >> compete on price with "free". > <snip> > > I can't imagine that many cameras have features being "powered" by freeware. > > cheers, > frank >
You might be surprised. A lot of core code in a lot of products is from Open Source software (it's not necessarily freeware as its free as in speech, not beer) -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
