What percentage of the software you use regularly is open source?
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Re:Home PCs, Work PCs, Phones (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Not Many (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Not Many (Score:5, Informative)
You can download the source for the current version here: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/v6.4.5.html [notepad-plus-plus.org]. Click on "Notepad++ source code".
You can see a list of other recent versions here: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/download/all-versions.html [notepad-plus-plus.org], each of which has source available.
Older versions (2003-2011) can be had from SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/notepad-plus/files/notepad%2B%2B%20releases%20source/ [sourceforge.net].
You did look before you commented, right?
Re:Not Many (Score:4, Informative)
Nope. Source code is right her:
http://download.tuxfamily.org/notepadplus/6.4.5/npp.6.4.5.src.7z [tuxfamily.org]
I don't know which license they use.
OK, fine, I won't be lazy....its GPL according to the website.
Re:Matlab and a few games (Score:2, Informative)
Is Python really on par with Matlab yet?
Your kidding right! Python is an open source (hence free) general purpose high level programming language while Matlab is a proprietary product of MathWorks (you pay for this) numerical computing environment and fourth-generation programming language, how could they possibly be on par?
SciPy and NumPy are competing with Matlab - I know many researchers who switched from Matlab, so for them it is "on par".
Re:Home PCs, Work PCs, Phones (Score:2, Informative)
How about Open Source games?
There are a number of them thanks to Humble Bundle.
There's also a fair number of Open Source games of decent quality from the community.
Wesnoth (TBS), Spring (RTS), Hedgewars (ballistic TBS)
Layers (Score:4, Informative)
I use OS X (especially Safari and Mail) quite a bit, iOS a little. Definitely not open source, right? But what about Darwin? What about WebKit? What about Apache, MySQL, Linux, OpenJDK, and a zillion other open source things used to serve up the Web sites I visit?
Frankly, I think the closed-source client software I use is a pretty thin shell around lots of layers of mostly-open stuff.
Re: Matlab and a few games (Score:4, Informative)
Why are you using chromium? Google Chrome works perfectly well on just about all Linux distros as well as (cough!) MS Windows and has done so for well over two years now although to be fair your Linux distro should be less than two years old.
I can't speak for the GP, but Chromium doesn't have the code for sending usage stats to Google - that's an important plus for Chromium in my book.