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Subject: Re: Open Source Ideas Into Commercial Programs?

Author: Tord Romstad

Date: 11:04:00 08/24/05

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On August 24, 2005 at 13:50:07, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>It's been a 1-way street.

It is not quite as 1-way as it seems when you are only reading the CCC
and the Winboard forum.  In private communication, at least some of the
top programmers are willing to reveal a few small secrets.

>And as I said many times over the past few years, if
>enough amateur authors get together to share ideas, before long the commercial
>programs will be no better than the best amateurs, and it won't be long after
>that until they are actually worse.  We might be beginning to see this happen
>today.

I would say it has been happening for years already.  That's why the gap
between the amateurs and the commercials keeps shrinking.

Tord



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