Re: Open Source Enhancement

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 07:11:11 +0000, Cameron Gibbs wrote:

I can assure you I am quite real and very serious about this idea.

Here is what you need to know. I have a vision. I have the capacity to lead
the development of a great many tools that can bring you a lot of power but
I have not trained to be a computer engineer.

That is rather obvious.

You seem to be confused about the foundations of open source software.
The entire source code base for OpenBSD is freely available to you and all
the rest of the planet. There is no secret "Intellectual Property" such
as you promise to reveal to investors.

I am a CNC programmer. A
machinist. I love technology and technological ideas. I am an inventor and I
have been inspired by the Open Source Philosophy and it's application to
many areas of life for a long time. I have played around with Linux but even
with all of the strides that have been made I still find it just easier to
use Windows. I would love to operate in a computing environment that would
allow me the capacity to add extensions to my computing tools without
necessarily working with code. I would love to be able to analyse and
understand programs written in languages that are not familiar to me. I
would love to be able to open up programs that were previously closed and
bring their technology to me.

The use of Windows is absolutely antithetical to your expressed desires;
source code for that crapware is not legally available. If you really
want to examine source code the obvious solution is to learn the languages
in which that code is written.

While OpenBSD is written mostly in the C programming language you are free
to add whatever functionality you wish using C or any other language.

Now a lot of you already know how to do this. You have likely trained for a
long time to be able to do this. But I am looking to build this new way of
programming for people like myself. People who would like to make a
difference but who presently just feel a bit dyslexic when faced with source
code written in anything up to 6 languages. With compilers located who knows
where? Interfaces that are just not seamless and tooling suites written on
the fly that appear to use some other script that's not quite a language,
not quite a macro. Who knows... There is a lot of good out there and
probably some of you have written some but there is a lot of crap to waid
through.

OpenBSD is mostly written in C. Where is it?

[duhring@mail ~]$ whereis cc
/usr/bin/cc

Some utilities are written in Perl and you can customize additional
functionality with shell scripts using the Bourne, Korn or C shells or
with Perl, Tcl/Tk, PHP and other scripting languages. There is no Visual
BASIC.

Unlike your Windows, the entire API (Application Programming Interface) is
completely public and well documented.

I can just make it easier. That's all I know!

You will find life easier if you quit soliciting investors in the US
without following the strict rules of the SEC (Securities Exchange
Commission).

.

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