Re: Realtime/embedded project to help with employment.

[Preben Randhol <randhol+abuse@pvv.org>]

Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> Preben Randhol wrote:
> 
>>Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
>>
>>> And what have we gained from that so far? You still don't trust a x.0
>>> version, do you?
>>
>>Well, WPs that crash as much as the commercial once, but are gratis ;-)
> 
> Well, that's surely an advantage. ;)

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. It also makes the machines usable to a great deal more people as
they can afford to buy the hardware, but might not afford to fork out
several hundred/thousand $ for crappy software. Especially third world.

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.

It is quite scary to think that if you get only Microsoft computers,
mobiles, game consoles, gadgets etc... they would get an enormous power.

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.

mvh
Preben
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