Fixing open sourced proprietary code for porting to Linux

Rogelio Serrano <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.user-groups.linux.philippine
Message-ID <CANszf4hwG5jZYxh31aAX5JLoSKn_KeskT_4fzdAfO6Aw=cj+DA@mail.gmail.com> 
I must be missing something. Learning from formerly closed code might just
need a special mind set or training? I learn a lot but I mostly have to
rewrite to "clean" them up or just redesign and reimplement from scratch. I
have a deep inferiority complex towards the software engineering elite in
the closed Kingdoms but I am not expecting this.

What's your experience guys?

Are they open sourcing fugly code on purpose?

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