The Flexibility of Open Source
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| One of the things that has been a strong point of Open Source Software (OSS)
| for years, even if it hasn't been held at the forefront of the battle, is the
| flexibility that OSS offers. This is something I think needs to be said more
| these days as our world becomes ever more dynamic, requiring software to be
| ever more flexible in order to keep up with our ever changing lives.
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http://www.raiden.net/?cat=2&aid=356
Related to this:
How to Create a Highly Successful Open Source Project
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| I’ve been making public releases of Unworkable, a simple and efficient
| from-scratch BitTorrent implementation written in C for a couple of months
| now. Prior to that, I had been working on it for about 18 months on and off.
| While I wouldn’t claim it to be highly successful at this early point, I make
| an effort to try to manage the project well, and I intend to write about some
| of my ideas and the things I have learned along the way.
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http://niallohiggins.com/2007/12/25/how-to-create-a-highly-successful-open-source-project/
Recent:
There is value in source code, whether you want it or not
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| A common question you hear from proprietary vendors when dismissing open
| source alternatives is “how many customers actually want access to the code
| anyway?” It is a question I put to an open source software vendor myself
| earlier this week while playing devil’s advocate.
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| Some of the former supporters were acquired, some fizzled out, and some lost
| interest. No doubt the same things will happen to come of the current
| supporters over time, while new supporters will emerge. Thanks to the code
| being open, the PostgreSQL project will carry on regardless.
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http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2007/12/20/there-is-value-in-source-code-whether-you-want-it-or-not/
My Christmas wish: more open source for everyone (and an ultralight Macbook for
me)
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| I haven’t posted to this blog for a few weeks. Mostly because I’ve been
| slammed at work trying to help stabilize our Oracle Portal system that kept
| crashing every few days. We appear to have gotten a handle on it, after
| spending a ton of time and money. But this experience has led me to my
| Christmas wish for every programmer around the world: more open source.
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| See the biggest problem we had was that we couldn’t get a handle on exactly
| what was breaking. In fact it appears we had a bunch of little problems, all
| of them adding up to a system that wasn’t stable and could get pushed over
| the edge from a variety of sources.
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http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/programming-and-development/?p=579
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