The beauty of open source is 90% of what you need is written for you. All you have to do is work out the last 10%, its a pretty fair deal.

The real time eater in using "open source" is that, in order to maintain sanity, you have to convert it to the coding standards you work with.

I have seen projects where each and every module was written to a different standard and, that, elementary my dear Watson, is non-debuggable.

However every cloud has a silver lining, the required rewrite, usually, gives you some understanding of how the purloined code works.

During the rewrite, test, test, test so, that if a clerical error sneak in, you need to check only 25 possible lines, not a thousadd

Erik