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Title: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: pumawolf on November 26, 2014, 07:47:17 AM can anyone just go in there and fiddle with things.
Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: Melbustus on November 26, 2014, 07:48:50 AM https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: odolvlobo on November 26, 2014, 07:58:06 AM Open source means that everyone can see the code and you can use it with very few restrictions. You can't fiddle with someone else's code but you can fiddle with your own copy of it.
Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: cuddaloreappu on November 26, 2014, 07:59:18 AM take Windows media player Vs VLC player..
no developer can contribute to improving or developing windows media player but only microsoft can do and hence it will not be freely available... but VLC is open source and anyone can contribute to its development and have full access to its code..it will be free.. people can copy the code and create similar version.. in ourcase dogecoin, litecoin etc.. Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: pumawolf on November 26, 2014, 08:07:50 AM i see, thanks boyz n galz
Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: Soros Shorts on November 26, 2014, 10:47:19 AM In reality though he who controls the source control repository controls the code. They won't just let anyone check in changes willly nilly into the official repository. You could always make a copy of the current code into a repository that you control and start releasing your own builds, but nobody would likely use them over the official builds.
Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: DannyHamilton on November 26, 2014, 02:30:51 PM In reality though he who controls the source control repository controls the code. They won't just let anyone check in changes willly nilly into the official repository. You could always make a copy of the current code into a repository that you control and start releasing your own builds, but nobody would likely use them over the official builds. There is nothing "official" about the most commonly used builds. The fact that a large percentage of users currently prefer that particular build doesn't make it "official", it just makes it popular. Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: Beliathon on November 26, 2014, 03:58:12 PM Basically it means we win the game of money and all your financial base are belong to us.
Title: Re: whats up guys, can someone elaborate more on what open source means. Post by: pedrog on November 26, 2014, 10:20:07 PM Nothing better than the guru of free opensource software to explain it:
Richard Stallman: Free v Open Source Software https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrcdhzr2qnk Why is free software important? Richard Stallman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPPikY3uLIQ |