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

[Michael D. Hirsch]

On Friday 17 October 2003 03:21 pm, Timothy C. Klein wrote:
> * bill ehlert (ehlert_b at yahoo.com) wrote:
> > --- Nate Duehr <nate at natetech.com> wrote:
> >
> >     . . .
> >
> > > Open-source is modifyable by anyone using it.
> > > That's the key.  If it
> > > doesn't do something you like, change it,
> >
> > **  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.

True.  But from a corporate perspective, if the company wants it changes, they 
can hire a competent coder.  You get all the advantages of owning the code 
but without many of the disadvantages and costs.

Michael