I have all the code—now I want to hug a free software developer
I have all the source code.
That’s not some sort of metaphorical declaration of the glory of free and open source software; I’m not talking about simply having the rights to go download some source code. I mean it quite literally: I have the source code necessary to build all of the software powering my PC.
Right now. Like, on my hard drive.
+ Also on Network World: 30 days in a terminal +
I did this simply because I could. Because the source code is there. Source code repositories galore. And as I sit here typing this, I have all of it—at least for everything I use every day. And I’ve backed it up.
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