High Plains Thumper <hpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> High Plains Thumper wrote:
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>>| Microsoft's code is also secret, while the Linux core is
>>| freely available for download and adaptation, hence the
>>| term "open source".
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> One more thing, open source allows students to look under the
> bonnet and learn how operating systems, software tools,
> libraries and applications are written. Microsoft being
> proprietary has tools and libraries, but code is closed. The
> open source model makes an excellent educational training
> laboratory of a fully functional operating system. From
> this, one can learn how to write drivers, libraries, make
> modifications to the kernel, etc.
You win the "stating the bleeding obvious" medal for this year.
You went to the effort of typing all that to basically tell this NG the
VERY BASICS of "free software".
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