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Dropbox - a study in what's right with open source, and wrong with windows.
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| There are already several software on the
| market that allow you to reach your home
| computer from work, and do NOT require
| that you install software on your work
| computer. So, I see dropbox as a "why does
| this exist?" question.
|
| In Open Source, this is rarely a problem.
| Software that isn't necessary does not
| gain the volunteers to work on it that it
| would need in order to grow. Software that
| is needed gets thousands of players
| involved. Since nobody gets paid to write
| open source, the driving factor behind it
| is perception of need or usefulness.
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http://blog.seattlepi.com/theethicist/archives/196040.asp?from=blog_last3
MS and Oracle's big dev tools - who needs 'em?
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| Emacs, Vim, and other editors have basic
| syntax highlighting and code navigation
| for an even broader set of formats despite
| the fact that they lag IDEs in features.
| Though IDEs offer impressive plug-in
| capabilities, traditional script, and
| config files seem easier to learn and use
| and ultimately more flexible.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/28/ides_versus_the_people/
Recent:
Giving it Away for Free
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| I was talking with a pal of mine yesterday out back in his workshop. He was
| making a beautiful piece of furniture and I was going on about the world
| which, of course, eventually led to a discussion of computer operating
| systems, open source, that kind of thing.
|
| [...]
|
| As we both oooh'd and ahhh'd over it and ran our fingers over it I asked
| him, "So, Frank, how much you gonna sell this bad-boy for?" Frank just
| smiled. "I'm not selling this, I can't. You know, it's too much of me, to
| much soul, too much devotion. I could never sell this, I'd either keep it for
| myself or give it to someone I loved."
|
| "So, Frank, you mean like those Open Source developers?", I asked. And he
| smiled again. He got it. His smile got crooked and he said, "Yeah, ya bastid,
| just like those open source developers." You could almost see his epiphany.
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http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/235/1/
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