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Re:Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project by JoeAltmaier on Monday January 31, 2011 @12:06PM (#2162216)
Add: your source has so many accidental dependencies that its agony to extract the bit I need.

Actually, I do use open source, even so. Its just lots harder than it needs to be.

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Re:Top ten reasons why I won't use your open source project by JoeAltmaier on Monday January 31, 2011 @12:16PM (#2162271)
To elaborate: if your IP is exhibited with an app, please, please put that IP into a lib, or a separate API. Do NOT blend the app with the lib e.g. do not mix in dialogs, command line stuff or even platform calls if possible.

I do embedded work a lot, and it doesn't have any of that, or its so different as to be unrecognizable.

IP examples: encryption, protocols, file format interpreters, translators. I (and very probably others) need your magic code 'naked'.

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