Open Source

[fridge]

Are sites who supply open sourse programes worth using? pros/cons anyone?

[NoddY]

Are sites who supply open sourse programes worth using? pros/cons anyone?

Err... Sourceforge? Only "157,526" registered projects.

[daviejones]

Err... Sourceforge? Only "157,526" registered projects.

157, 526? Is that it? Jeez, what are they doing!!!!!

[VectraMan]

Pros: It's free.
Cons: Once you've worked out how to download it, build it, configure it, and find and do the same with the other half a dozen open source libraries that you then discover you also need to make the initial one work even though nobody told you that, you'll wish you'd just bought something instead.

Too cynical?

[chicane]

Too cynical?

Yes.

Most significant open source apps come ready compiled for Windows, or packaged with the Linux distribution of your choice.

[Robster]

Are sites who supply open sourse programes worth using? pros/cons anyone?

and the prize for most vague question goes to.....