__/ [ Justin ] on Friday 14 July 2006 19:14 \__
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> __/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 14 July 2006 14:14 \__
>>
>> > This is not a small matter. It contributes significantly to the higher
>> > average quality of OSS compared to proprietary software. I know of
>> > cases where programmers have quit jobs or gone on strike, not for
>> > higher wages but simply to be allowed to work on projects that gave
>> > them the freedom to create elegant solutions to problems. And elegent
>> > code is high quality code, highly organized with functions closely
>> > delineated, and with any ugly details isolated into code segments that
>> > present the rest of the world with a simple interface. It is code
>> > that is less likely to have bugs in the first place, both because of
>> > its organization and also because of the high morale of the
>> > programmers. Also, the programmers who are attracted to elegance as a
>> > goal are the better programmers to start with.
>> >
> hi,
>
> Open source has changed our lives in ways we could never imagine. Now a
> days its hard to think of a life without open source, or i would say
> there is no life without open source
True. But to many people, OSS is merely inexistent. Many
others are simply not aware of the fact that they use it
(e.g. Webmail in our university uses the Horde Project). One
of the most fascinating things about OSS is that companies
rarely have headquarters. People just work from home in
isolated places, using IM clients, E-mails and Wikis to
comminicate and produce excellent code that they take pride
of and, in due time, deliver over the Web to millions of
people (at most). There is no experience, career and
lifestyle more rewarding than this.
Best wishes,
Roy
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