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Key Advantage of Open Source is Not Cost Savings
cmcsonar writes "Computer Economics recently conducted a survey of visitors to its website regarding the perceived advantages in the use of open source software. Although not a scientific sample, the results are nevertheless startling."
In other news, 11% of Slashdotters were found to use Diatium as their regular source of portable power, more at 11.
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Using OSS in vegetable oil will not only save money, but also dramatically reduce cooling costs...
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain.
I use linux the same reason everyone else does, to make me 1337 8-|
That was a close one, I almost clicked the link to RTFA.
I'm sorry, but you'll have to use a better adjective than "startling" to get past my click-filter...
Well, that's okay. Often data is altered, padded, or just plain made up to make researchers sound smart -- I mean, 74.2% of all people know that.
I don't know about you, but I voted CowboyNeal!
Oh, wait...
You can fix buggy proprietary software. Any real hacker has more than once reverse engineered software to enhance it, fix bugs, or remove copy protection. Granted, it's not as easy as 20 years ago. DOS came with a decent disassembler "DEBUG.EXE", Windows didn't. Quantity of code has gone way up, and there's callbacks, threads, and other complexities, but it's still possible.
Intellectual Property is a monopolistic, selfish, and defective concept. It is "tyranny over the mind of man"
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FOAD, donavan.
Since Qt is licensed under the GPL since version 2.2 (5 fucking years ago! Hello-oo McFly?!?!?), and is therefore 100% open-source and free, I think we can safely draw the followjng conclusions from your comment:
a) you are a fucking moron who has no idea what he's talking about
and/or
b) You live in a barrel in middle of Siberia, and your access to more or less recent news is somewhat limited.
As a punishment for your moronic drivel, may I suggest that you go sit on an anthill for a while, while you contemplate the reality of the situation?
Yes, my text was harsh, but I'm getting SICK AND TIRED of listening to morons whine how Qt is "closed source" and/or "commercial", when the fact is that it was licensed under the GPL about 5 years ago! So it's not like it happened yesterday and not everyone have had a chance to find out about the license-change. But it was FIVE FUCKING YEARS AGO! Get on with the times or get the fuck out!
Lesbian Nazi Hookers Abducted by UFOs and Forced Into Weight Loss Programs - -all next week on Town Talk.
I would like to repeat a request to the Slashdot coders that I made earlier:
Can we have a new moderation type: "-1 Wrong", please?
The above comment is just calling out to be moderated "Wrong", because it, simply, is wrong. They're wording it politely enough to avoid the troll & flamebait tags...but they're still just wrong.