__/ [ suckmysav ] on Tuesday 20 February 2007 00:00 \__
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:31:50 -0500, amicus_curious wrote:
>
>> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1253796.eoagHnRDvV@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> The source code for DSigner has been released under the General Public
>>> License
>>>
>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>> | The source code for DSigner has been released under the General
>>> | Public License
>>> |
>>> | I recommend you visit http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html to find
>>> | out just what this means.
>>> `----
>>>
>>>
http://www.friendcodes.com/forums/dsigner-1-x/32916-dsigner-source.html#post268996
>>
>> How thrilling!
>>
>> "Note that the source is quite lacking in comments, this was my first
>> project in Java and im sure there are many improvements to make, if you
>> make any worthwhile feel free to email me them to include in the download"
>>
>> Nothing like a first time effort Java based game. Should put Microsoft in
>> the grave once and for all.
>
> Either you demonstrate a stunning lack of understanding or you are just
> shilling for Microsoft.
He is. Bill Weisgerber even got exposed.
> Nobody is suggesting that this dsigner thing is meant to be a
> Microsoft Killer App because quite clearly it is not.
The nature of the GPL means that someone else out there will be able to grab
some useful impelmentation, either as a standalone module, or as a starting
point for coding, unification, comparison...
There won't be a need to reinvent the wheel. It is not surprising that there
are many Open Source applications out there which share the same codebases
(e.g. some libraries). The choice out there means that the best of breed
will be selected for a project, e.g. KHTML for standards-compliant rendering
of HTML or MagPie RSS for parsing of XML-structured feeds.
> What an article like this demonstrates is that Open Source is continually
> attracting new people and those new people will most likely continue to
> work within the open source community going on indefinitely.
Bill Weisrerber doesn't really know what Open Source mean. Not from a
pratical/technical point anyway. He only understands economics, so an "Hello
World" program is probably beyond his level of skills or comprehension.
> One day this guy won't be a Java n00b. He may in fact be the one who does
> eventually write that killer app.
>
> You never know.
>
> You do realise that it was hackers like this who in the eighties who
> helped MS-DOS and later Windows gain market dominance by creating all
> manner of little programs don't you?
>
> Isn't one of the favourite warcrys of you and the rest of the Windows
> Trolls that "wigth Windows, the world is my oyster" meaning that there are
> tons and tons of applications for Windows?
>
> Do you think that none of those applications are of a similar quality as
> this "dsigner" thing?
Shareware and freeware for Windows typically gets abandoned. Thus, it tends
to be buggy and obscure. It only collects dust in the corner of the Web
because it serves nobody's needs. Open Source, on the other hand, is always
vibrant.
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