[scribus] Is Linux/Scribus viable? (was New Linux User...)

[Grzegorz Staniak]

John Brown [johnbrown105 at hotmail.com] writes:

> Open Source indeed has a number of advantages, but they are overstated.
> Possession of the source code is irrelevant if you do not have the ability to
> "take a quick peek in the sources to see how something works or why 
> something isn't  working". 99.999% of the population would be able to do
> absolutely nothing with the source code or Windows MS Word, or whatever.

Yes, but that doesn't mean those non-tech people do not win in the F/OSS 
scenario - as long as _someone_ can check in a fix into cvs/svn/whatever,
all the community wins: core developers, contributors, users. You don't 
have to be a programmer to gain when the code is available to programmers.
 
GS
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Grzegorz Staniak <gstaniak _at_ wp [dot] pl>