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== Don't reinvent the wheel ==

== Don't reinvent the wheel ==

When working in open source, the idea is to get as much done with as little work as possible. That means you need the ability to find, evaluate, and adapt existing code to your purposes. Some (not all) of your applications do not give adequate attention to this issue. If we send you a link here, please respond by:

When working in open source, the idea is to get as much done with as little work as possible. That means you need the ability to find, evaluate, and adapt existing code to your purposes. Some (not all) of your applications do not give adequate attention to this issue. If we send you a link to this subsection, please respond by:

*Searching (in places like sourceforge and google code) for existing tools which do something similar to what you propose

*Searching (in places like sourceforge and google code) for existing tools which do something similar to what you propose