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Old 11-16-2018, 05:24 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by Bill_T View Post
I once came to rely heavily on an open source GUI development kit while developing a C++ project. In a sweating-blood, time-crunch situation, I attempted to access a pivotal feature. I got a message box "Still working on this one! Will finish up when I get some time! Feel free to push this code forward!"
That's not because it is open source.

I've been bitten a few times because of development tools being acquired by other companies and simply abandoned. One competitor less...

In the security sphere, most software is open source, but not free. Logical, the experts like to be able to "see" what they buy before they buy.
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