From: "Joe Barr" 


When retrieving images from my Sony's memory stick via serial adapater, the
image name would end up with garbage in it.  I cleaned that up.  Both
Mandrake and Red Hat have since done the same.





On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 06:27:39 +0000, Geo. wrote:

> "Joe Barr"  wrote in message
> news:3df56a89$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
>> So your argument boils down to whether or not people here have taken
>> advantage of open source by looking at code, and fixing it if they
>> could?
>
> No, I only used people here as an example.
>
>> And since you don't see any evidence of that happening, you think that
>> open source has no advantage?
>
> I never said no advantage (everything has advantages and disadvantages), I
> said having the source is only an advantage to programmers and that most
> computer users are not programmers so to most computer users having the
> source is not an advantage. Surely you and /m can see the logical flow to
> that reasoning?
>
> what percentage of the user base for windows do you think are programmers?
>
>> I hope I have it wrong, because that is very poor thinking.
>
> Yes you have it wrong, you are thinking in absolutes, I am thinking in
> John Q public mode.
>
>> By the way, I have fixed a problem in gPhoto for the specific camera
>> that I have, for the distribution I was running at the time.  I mean, if
>> that is all it takes to convince you of the utility of open source,
>> welcome to the water.
>
> Tell me more, what did you do?
>
> Geo.

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