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Hi Tom, jt, Actually, it does happen. I work a lot with SMS's Med Series 4 software, and they do incorporate fixes and enhancements from their customers on occasion. Peter Dow Dow Software Services, Inc. 909 425-0194 voice 909 425-0196 fax ----- Original Message ----- From: <thomas@inorbit.com> Sent: Friday, November 16, 2001 10:57 PM Subject: OSS (was RE: Green screen - it's time is over/CODE/400 ) jt: > What I'm also saying is that when you pay a vendor for a product, there's no > reason why that vendor COULDN'T accept patches from their users. There's no > reason users COULDN'T submit patches, for the vendor to co-ordinate. Don't > see it happening, though.. I sure gotta admit that. True, sure. But it's also common that a package is bought (i.e., licensed) for big $$$ and then many mods are made to customize for the particular business. This is most often done without the benefit of any source code so the mods are one of a kind add-ons with little likelihood of actually affecting product direction. So in addition to paying the license, the cost of added code still shows up and possibly a greater cost than via OSS with benefit of original source and possibly a better fit again because of source. Tom Liotta _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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