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Every node produces messages, possibly with loginfo, logerr etc etc.. Even if you don't see them, there is a lot of debug messages going on in your node. rosout collects all these messages. The advantages are in terms of logging, and in terms of displaying all the messages in a single place.

Probably the main reason for a centralized messages collector is to allow wonderful tools like rxconsole to exist :-)

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