[SC.LUG] B-Tree Open Source Code

[Damian Parker]

Frank Mitchell wrote:
  > All the people demanding the right to modify Software, seem to regard
> themselves as Authority Figures, not Freedom Fighters. To me that's a
> disincentive for anybody who might be interested in Linux as a User. They're
> always talking about the changes they want, not the changes other people
> want. They don't seem interested in getting any Feedback.

People chose Linux because they themselves can freely modify whatever
they want without the need to hassle developers of xyz packages.  Under 
Windows and propietary software there is no and indeed very little 
chance of the software being modified by them for your own needs.  If 
you want something doing, you do it yourself.

I run 100% open source applications and wont entertain anything 
propietary because if I dont like the want something appears I want to 
change it.

My iPaq runs GPE, I didnt like some of the things GPE was doing, so I 
just changed them to my own liking.  Getting the GPE team to do it would 
take months of nagging and I couldnt gaurentee they would actually do it 
anyway.  I did it myself in a couple of hours and now I have a very 
usable iPaq running GPE.

Forgive me for saying but I feel you are a Windows developer coming into 
the Linux software world.  Windows developers are all about binary 
distribution and keeping source code locked in Fort Knoxx.  Linux 
developers are completely the opposite.

Linux Devs can make a lot of money through support rather than the sale 
of a package.  I know, thats how I earn a living ;)

Im sorry if this seems to be an attack, its not intended to be, just im 
getting a little bored with the constant trebus spam ;)

Maybe you need to a create your own trebus mailing list. Or request a 
sourceforge.net project for it ?

-- 
Damian Parker