Im curious about what the people on these boards think of open source programming. Personally I think its a great idea and I am now working on my own open source program with my freinds, its not on the net yet but Ill put it up as soon as I can. anyway, Im just looking for peoples oppinions.

--FenixStrife

"Human knowledge belongs to the world"

Cool what is the program going to do? Sorry but at the moment I dont even know HTML let allone a programing language.

I think programs that are (at least partially) open source will eventually, but ineveitably, be more popular than their closed-sourced equivalents.

(Before someone brings up Linux vs Windows,let me say that I don't consider those equivalent programs.)

The question I have is: What does open sourcing do to the marketplace? If a company has to open source to compete, they lose a huge amount of profit. So does that cut down on the quality of the programs we get because software companies will have to make tons of open source programs instead of riding out their closed sourced ones? I dunno. Interested in hearings opinions from SPers.