Open Source Needs More Concerted Efforts
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| Major corporate houses choose open source partly due to the
| economic gains and mainly due to the control the open source
| system gives to their hands.
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| Incidentally Microsoft Corporation's Shared Source Program is an
| effort by the corporate giant to somehow win the trust of the open
| source community. Though Microsoft allows a peek into the source
| code, redistribution rights are neither granted nor expected. Only
| an illusion of free handling of source code, shared source program
| lacks the democratic nature of all open source initiatives.
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http://www.webpronews.com/expertarticles/expertarticles/wpn-62-20070117OpenSourceNeedsMoreConcertedEfforts.html
http://tinyurl.com/yvljdr
Apart from some typos, the article makes some mistakes. It assumes that Open
Source suffers from lack of reuse and reinvents the wheel, but it's actually
the opposite. Developers can grab many desired 'bits' from sites like
SourceForge, rather than license some commercial code that raises cost.
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