From: "Joe Barr" 


Well, this does help explain why you don't "get it" when it comes
to open source.

When a programmer fixes an open source bug, everyone benefits, not just the
programmer.  All the users benefit.  The program/project benefits. The
programmer benefits too, but probably not as much as the others because she
is the one who put the work in.

Stop thinking it is over once the fix is done.  It's not.  It's just begun.









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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