madprens Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 The open source community is what? Give an example Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Is for the most part free, and open for everyone to use. An example, this site. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 I smell homework question. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Haha, same here, *sniff sniff*, yep that's HW... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 The open source community is what? Give an example Communistic. See: Soviet Union, Cuba, China, et al. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Don't forget Micro$oft! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinM1 Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Don't forget Micro$oft! Yes. Microsoft is the champion of open source design. The champion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Please read this, it is also a perfect example http://www.gnu.org/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waynew Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 The Open Source Community is an enclave of Maoist-Communist Occult members who work within IT industry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.josh Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 Maoist-Communist Occult members That kind of sounds scare and accusatory... is it? Anyways, I thought the idea behind open source communities is kind of a "Survival of the fittest" or "Natural selection" mentality. That is, if you make something openly available, it will stand or fall on its own, instead of hiding behind 'walls.' Also, it broadens the creativity pool, because it stands to reason that 10 heads are better than 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maq Posted October 17, 2008 Share Posted October 17, 2008 The major downside is that your code is readily available for everyone else to see. This means more exploits/hacks are going to be found, which could be good if they report them, and of course bad if they don't. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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