From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,52a0bacbcdd2da17 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2003-08-13 03:13:19 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!adsl-213-200-246-247.cybernet.CH!not-for-mail From: Vinzent Hoefler Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment. Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 12:13:10 +0200 Organization: JeLlyFish software Message-ID: References: Reply-To: v.hoefler@acm.org NNTP-Posting-Host: adsl-213-200-246-247.cybernet.ch (213.200.246.247) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1060769597 34675897 213.200.246.247 (16 [175126]) X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:41370 Date: 2003-08-13T12:13:10+02:00 List-Id: Preben Randhol wrote: >Seriously. The gain of Open Source developments is that I can make >programs/tools in my spare time that I myself and many more may benifit >from. Well, that's not quite it (only a part of it). Free software in the sense of public domain and freeware existed. This has nothing to do with Open Source in general. Robert Dewar's Keynote Presentation from the SIGAda2002 is now online (well, ironically in Microsoft Power Point format): You might find it worth reading it. >But another very important benifit is that the format of your files is >not closed. You keep you information in a way that can easily be used in >other programs in the future and you are not dependant on *one* company. ACK. >Another gain is security. It is not for nothing that Microsoft have to >show their source code to governments around the world. There is no >trick in putting in spyware in a close source Microsoft Windows OS. And another gain is: If Microsoft ever gets out of business, we don't have Windows anymore, because it is closed source. :-> Still, open or closed source doesn't make software more or less robust. But with open source at least you might be able to fix it faster. :) Vinzent. --=20 Parents strongly cautioned -- this posting is intended for mature audiences over 18. It may contain some material that many parents would not find suitable for children and may include intense violence, sexual situations, coarse language and suggestive dialogue.