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bedouin:
--- Quote from: Calum ---they have been known to pay lipservice to the idea of open source, but in reality they're only interested in what closed source software can take from open source released code.
more specifically speaking, this board is not using open source software, probably because some people still believe that expensive closed source solutions are inherently "better".
--- End quote ---
Or it could be that they explored the open-source alternatives and thought they sucked. If there was some inherent belief that open-source alternatives were inferior this site would be hosted on a Windows server, not Linux. If an open source project can do the job, then people will embrace it. Nothing beats free. If Linux were equal to OS X I'd happily not pay the Apple tax; unfortunately that's not the case.
And if you want to be a purist and insist corporations simply steal from open source, then one could just as easily state that the biggest open-source projects only are usable because of previous corporate investments (Mozilla from Netscape and AOL; OpenOffice from Sun). It's a two-way streak. People like IBM and Apple are finally getting it. I'm sure the Konqueror folks benefit a great deal from Apple's contributions, not to mention they've open-sourced things like Rendezvous at their own will.
Calum:
well, i didn'tinsist that, and incidentally my outburst gave you the perfect opportunity to make the above explanation!
everybody wins!
MrX:
im famous!
here are some pics to help the mods.
Mr X
Aloone_Jonez:
MrX, don't you fucking listen!, stop posting stupid fucking pictures!
:fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu: :fu:
MrX:
can i do ascii pictures instead? i mean whats wrong with pictures. its not like we all use dial up here.
Mr X
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