What do you think about open source?
By andben
@andben (1075)
Italy
February 6, 2007 2:26am CST
Open source is the future, everybody that has downloaded an open source software can see the code to know how the software works and if he wants, he can modidy e redistribute it.
I this way open source software is very robust because all the world can find bugs and correct them.
But, can you gain money with open source?
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5 responses
@adquirante (232)
• Philippines
7 Mar 07
The Linux Desktop is a major barrier since Microsoft still dominates it, and with the end-user heavily reliant on the software giant's spoonfeeding. Still, open source is making great progress even on the Windows platform, with Mozilla and a slew of other applications becoming more and more popular by the day. Check out portableapps.com for an entire suite of open source software you could put in your flash drive. And what about the new Internet Explorer 7 from MS? Isn't it funny how they totally revised IE's interface to resemble... of all things... Firefox? My bet is open source may be held back by Gates & Co., but it is inevitable. It's inherent in the nature of the inernet that technology can and will be shared...
@spiderman05 (851)
• Canada
23 May 07
I would love to see open source projects taking over the paying software published by some greedy companies, especially Microsoft. I use Linux, Firefox, Open Office and even Latex to produce some professional documents despite the unhappiness of some secretatries who have only heard about word.
On the other hand, I hate to say it, but I don't expect the big shark will let the open source movement take over. They will just use their armies of lawyers and file cases about intellectual property infringement until the open source movement collapses.
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@cruzades (659)
• Philippines
6 Feb 07
I'm supporting open source, particularly reactos.org, which aims to give us a Free M$ compatible OS, yes... an Operating System.
It is safer to use an application which came from open source community than the privately made one, why? because open source's source code are there available and ready for us to review/view, whether the code is dangerous or not, of course we could add into it, compiled it and run it the way you want, that's the essence of Open source.
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@kjaonline (31)
• Philippines
3 Apr 07
I've tried that OS.. It's in alpha and most all my programs don't work for it..
If only Linux and Microsoft worked together? That ouwld be nice.. Free operating system but the programs are not..
@rick_2047 (185)
• India
10 Jun 07
i think linux and open source is the way of the future it is the best thing to stop piracy coz every thing will b free the best thing will b i will have full control over my os so new things can b done and things can b improved thats the best thing about open source what do u say
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@daomengzhu (17)
• Philippines
16 Feb 07
I also believe that open source is the future. But when is that future? Is it tomorrow, next month, next year or the next 10 years? Take linux for example, it has come a long way since Linus developed the kernel and several upgrading of it and the many tools and variants it has spawned..(ubuntu, suse, red hat, etc). It has dominated the server space but when will it conquer your desktop?
I think Red Hat's business model is the way to gain money with open source. Service is the key product, giving away the OS and selling the know how.
What do you think?
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