[fedora-india] Moving Forward in Open Source

dash pradipta dashpradipta2006 at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 07:31:36 UTC 2010


True!!! Agree with You Sankarshan.

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 12:37 PM, "sankarshan (সঙ্কর্ষণ)" <
foss.mailinglists at gmail.com> wrote:

> <
> http://pcquest.ciol.com/content/editorscolumn/techetete/2010/110010801.asp
> >
>
> I think we are losing the value of Open Source. The core objective of
> Open Source has been to let people learn the internals of a software
> application with the help of source code, and improve it further so that
> everyone benefits.
>
> [...]
>
> Let's understand this with my favorite example-Anaconda installer for
> RedHat based Linux distros. Anaconda is a fantastic piece of software,
> but it lacks documentation. So to modify it, you have to be a reverse
> engineer, and not a software developer. Therefore, contributing to its
> further development is difficult.
>
> --
> sankarshan mukhopadhyay
> <http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
>
>
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