On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 5:47 PM, Leland Jackson <[email protected]> wrote: > I agree. Open source has its advantages over Microsoft's OS and > Microsoft's application stacks. For one thing, I can get into the > source code to see what's going on. If something is going wrong, I can > attempt to debug the problem, or I can charge billable hours extending, > customizing, and creating open source applications. I can even fork an > existing application bending it to do exactly what I want. ---------------------
You can only debug because you have source code? The rest of your reply reads like all of our Mission Statements. We will fix your problem. > With Microsoft's OS and applications, everything is a big mystery > including the Registry. If something goes wrong, there is no way to get > at the problem directly. Everything must be done by Microsoft's people. ----------------------- Big mystery? They wrote a few hundred books to sweep away the curtains a long time ago I thought? <http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/certification/exam.aspx> So the no way to get at a problem directly is because you don't know how. I know that I don't know it all in today's environment. Are you a network admin or a programmer? Over the past 10 years both sides of the equation have gotten larger and teh ability in cross over becomes harder. Talking to our java lead programmer about builds and management of code leads me to believe that we need to hire someone with experience in this so she can learn from them. Could be contractor to start or a FTE because there is going to be so much new work in this area. Back to your main point. I think that the value of tweaking existing code in a product is overrated compared to someone who uses that product for their daily tasks. I'll say that tweaking the codebase for VFP is not what a VFP developer should be doing. So tossing around that is a benefit to have it is not worth a lot. I work with vendor products that are very expensive to get into. As we work with them we find the walls that stop us from getting what we WANT because it is their secrets in th industry and they think they are worth keeping. I work with this way too much this year <http://www.cardiff.com/products/liquidoffice/> We connect to this for a great deal of the content. <http://www.hyland.com/onbase-and-ecm.aspx> Neither product gives us source, and heck we are barely sub customers where we can only purchase licenses and ask questions of a reseller. I don't make the rules I just have to live by them. :( -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer CIMSgts 901.246-0159 cell _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
