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Absolutely no axe to grind I've contributed to open source projects and will certainly continue to. What I don't like is that people overstate the importance o
by shin_lao 15y ago
Absolutely no axe to grind I've contributed to open source projects and will certainly continue to.
What I don't like is that people overstate the importance of open source and think it's the solution to everything.
Open source is great for some projects, useless and even counterproductive for others.
- byuu 15y agoI can agree with that. I'm sure you weren't implying me in particular, but to clarify, I certainly don't think open source is the solution to everything. I just find it particularly important in the field of emulation. This is much like a science, with constant refinements to theories. Since we're running against the clock to preserve these systems before they die, I assign much more value to open source emulators than I do to other applications (for instance, I'm happy to use the closed source nVidia driver on Linux.)
- shin_lao 15y agoI think open source makes a lot of sense for research. I'm actually surprised researchers don't publish that much source code.