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From: <AndrewWatt2000@a...> > 2. MIT / Berkeley hacker phase (for want of a more precise term) - utilities > limited primarily to a fairly small circumscribed group freely shared (as far > as I am aware) This list doesn't correspond to my experience of computers at all. From the 80s to the current time, I have used a mix of open source, shareware, bundled, evaluation and purchased software, on all of 9 UNIXes, WMCS, Mac, PC, and TI Explorer OS. The best experience has always been with Open Source: binary distributions feel like a ticking bomb--you just sit there waiting until they break and there is nothing you can do (except swear and switch to another application wasting your time). Scriptable systems (i.e. where the user-level functionality is hackable through scripts) with standard interchange formats seem to be a sweet-spot between closed and open systems--you can still fix many things that go wrong, but the developers are free to change their API implementations without creating versioning problems. Cheers Rick
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