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| convention and capitalism. Some of the software | | | | Open-source programming advocates argue for free |
| that they design isn't free, so the patches and fixes | | | | software that can be democratically developed, with |
| that they provide are distributed in small executables | | | | the costs of development and any profits that |
| that can't be read by likeminded technophiles. This is | | | | accrue shared among the designers. This would |
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| proprietors of the software have spent weeks | | | | computer support and computer repair would no |
| scratching their heads over. | | | | longer be quite so esoteric. Anyone with the right |
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| computer repair. But because the patches are | | | | Some advocates of open-source development tend |
| exclusive to the software company that owns the | | | | to view big corporations and their closed source |
| software, the computer repair may come weeks or | | | | programming as the epitome of nasty exploitation, |
| even months too late. If the process of creating and | | | | greed, money-grabbing capitalism, and, in general, |
| selling the software was more democratic, enabling | | | | pure evil. The fans of closed-source proprietary |
| other designers from outside the software company | | | | software, meanwhile, regard the open-source |
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| quicker. | | | | enthusiasts who are afraid to make money and fail |
| Sad Reflection | | | | to realize that there are people even worse than |
| It's an indictment on society that a software | | | | Microsoft who would be more than happy to bring |
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| open-source code could be more easily stolen and | | | | connected to it. So you can see that both |
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