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February 2nd, 2010 at 9:14 AM
Both are needed.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:16 AM
Pay apps are also needed.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:28 AM
not really… I buy nothing software
(then again, I make what I can’t download)
February 2nd, 2010 at 12:59 PM
exactly , most of the kernel developers get paid, including linus torvalds
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:07 PM
the weakness of opensource is that there is too many projects that do the same thing, they should all join forces and just focus on one!
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:11 PM
i would say that there is as much or more parallel development waste in private development. Most of the distros actually modify and enhance, thus a progress is made vs the whole or end result of a collaborative project which is also happening since anyone can use the modified code.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:12 PM
that is just is opensource can also be pay, the whole point is that being free of charge does not equal opensource. You pay for OSX and a huge chunk of it is opensource.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:26 PM
They should make popcorn free, tastes amazing!
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:27 PM
I’m currently using Ubuntu for my main machine now. The problem is software development is going to be slow when its a couple of guys in their bedrooms compared to a company with a million pound budget. I love open source and believe more and more open source software is the future.
February 2nd, 2010 at 1:43 PM
what about apache, mysql, openAL, they move faster or as fast than their private competitor software? Apache is num 1 in its market, OpenAL, is not standard in Windows and OSX
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 PM
An easier example is Firefox being better than IE. However I was referring to things like Proffesional video / audio editing software things like that.
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:14 PM
rofl
February 2nd, 2010 at 2:15 PM
I don’t think I could agree with your comment more.
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:14 PM
Are there that many people who don’t understand this? opensource, is open code, and someone can use this to make an app, and sell it. Freeware is free of cost (and full of viruses ..lol..J/K)
February 2nd, 2010 at 4:54 PM
@commodore256
If you don’t want anyone to use your code as they wish, you mind as well make it proprietary.
February 2nd, 2010 at 5:07 PM
@roboticterror No, I just don’t want it to be used to lock anybody in. Say if I made a free video editor that’s better than Vegas, I don’t want the forks to be proprietary.
February 2nd, 2010 at 6:52 PM
good video explanation of free and open source
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:28 PM
@commodore256
The funny part is that no one is lock into using the proprietary fork. They can still use the open version.
February 2nd, 2010 at 9:46 PM
@roboticterror I’m talking about say if I was developing something on a BSD license. Like if I was developing the mach kernel and apple totally changed it and added HFS+J support and relicensed the changes and now I can’t use HFS+J in my kernel, but apple’s using pieces of my kernel, but I can’t use their changes.
That’s why I wouldn’t use BSD license to license free software, but I would use BSD source code to make closed source software.
It depends on what you want to do.
February 2nd, 2010 at 11:48 PM
@commodore256
Ok, so Apple licenses their changes so you couldn’t use it. They should have the freedom to give or not to give away their changes.
If you want to lock people or software vendors out of your code, you mind as well make it proprietary.
February 3rd, 2010 at 12:14 AM
@roboticterror No, that’s why I’ll never license software under the BSD license, because if I did, I can’t always use code from forks of my code to make it better, but I would use relicense BSD licensed code to whatever the hell I want.
BSD is good for relicensing and you can keep all of your changes a secret if you wanted to. You can’t do that with GPL code.
GPL is good for making sure you can learn from any projects that have used your code.
That’s the whole point of what I’m saying.
February 3rd, 2010 at 6:14 AM
Good video. I think a major problem with people’s perception of Open Source is that they forget how ubiquitous it is, from smartphones to webbrowsers and webservers, multimedia libraries (OpenGL, OpenAL, SDL, GTK, etc…)
February 4th, 2010 at 3:21 AM
I have my own Richard Stallman quote!
“DRM refers to Digital Restrictions Management. That’s the practice of developing software specifically to restrict the users.”
February 6th, 2010 at 5:07 PM
What about OpenVMS?
February 7th, 2010 at 2:37 AM
Are you playing hackers or something? Your room is do dark!!