[lug] 'we have met the enemy, and he is us'

[Timothy C. Klein]

* bill ehlert (ehlert_b at yahoo.com) wrote:
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> --- Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
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>     . . .
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> > Open-source is modifyable by anyone using it. 
> > That's the key.  If it
> > doesn't do something you like, change it,
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> **  i have often wondered, just what
>     proportion of linux uxers are
>     actually good enough programmers
>     to do that?

Me too.  I am an entirely competent coder.  But most projects I care
about are already very large -- jumping into the source tree is a whole
lot of work.  It takes a lot of effort just to figure out where the
stuff is you might want to modify, and how it works.

Tim
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