A question for the open source people

[Bassel Safadi]

I'm a web programmer, I don't know C or C++ but actually can't live a day
without open source web content management systems like worldpress which I'm
hacking and building a copy of it for special needs, and yes a lot of people
( including me ) spend hours reading others code, learning and hacking,
specially those easy to read programming languages ( python, php )


Michael Harpe wrote:
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>> What I have always been curious about is this: how many of you actually
>> take advantage of the open source? In other words, how many of you really
>> take the source code and do something with it?
>>
>> Personally I don't. I can program in C, i'm pretty good at it. I've just
>> never felt the need to alter the software I use. I'm fine with waiting for
>> the new versions as they come out.
>>
>> I'm really not trying to start a fight. I am just curious. I love free
>> software. I think the free software movement has enabled a lot of people who
>> could not afford to operate a computer to do so. Having Linux source code
>> available has trained a generation of system programmers. There's no
>> disputing the value of free, open source software.
>>
>> Anyway, that's my question. Feel free to respond to me directly.
>>
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