Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)

[Delaney, Timothy]

This brings up an interesting point. I really don't think open source has
reached critical mass on either Windows or Mac yet. A large part of this is
that most applications on those platforms still don't come with source code.

There are plenty of developers who *do* release source code on these
systems, but they are generally released as *complete* source code i.e.
there is no encouragement to tinker with the source.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil Schemenauer [mailto:nas at arctrix.com]
> Sent: Friday, 29 September 2000 6:57 AM
> To: Tim Peters
> Cc: Python-List (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: Wholly unnecessary flame. (was Re: pyXML!)
> 
> 
> [Tim on the low percentage of Windows and Mac hackers]
> > The availability of development tools isn't enough to 
> account for it;
> > neither sheer number of users nor their platform expertise.
> 
> How about the availability of development tools and the source code to
> most of the applications?  This combination invites certain types of
> people to tinker.  These people stand a chance of going on 
> and becoming
> active participants on the development process rather than remaining
> merely Consumers of Binaries.