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Re:Open Source and Broader Community

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 07, 2004 01:12 PM
nope, I was with you there for a minute, but then you blew it with this:

>The general popluation doesn't care about the right >to see the source code, most of the users of >computers can't do any thing with the code any way. >Open source project managers and developers need to >better consider their end users. End users are not >always other programmers, some are teachers, >doctors, lawyers, engineers, housewives, >grandparents

back to the drawing board for you ! You don't get it !. If Freedom doesn't come before 'end users', the all is for naught. That's how we all got beholden to MS in the first place ! Nope, you don't get it at all yet...

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