What is the main benefit of open source?
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| Similar to the "invisible hand" of capitalism, there is an "invisible hand"
| of open source software. The idea is that when each individual works for
| their own benefit (fix bugs, add new features), it will benefit the entire
| community. When you have thousands of people doing this it allows open source
| software to quickly mature into a stable product, and includes features that
| are most wanted by users of the software.
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http://useopensource.blogspot.com/2007/09/what-is-main-benefit-of-open-source.html
Segmenting and growing open-source communities, Actuate/BIRT-style
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| Actuate may have an answer to this quandary. Actuate just announced the
| rollout of an innovative open-source community, called BIRT Exchange, focused
| on open-source business intelligence. I talked with the team today and was
| impressed by this new community model.
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| Released in 2004 as a project on Eclipse, BIRT has steadily grown in
| importance and adoption with Eclipse. Actuate hopes that the BIRT Exchange
| will focus this adoption even further by improving the end-user community
| experience...
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9786506-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
Out-Googling Google, a la Krugle
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| Clearly, IBM is betting big on Krugle. That's a serious stamp of approval,
| handing over 4 million lines of code for indexing.
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http://blogs.cnet.com/8301-13505_1-9786684-16.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=TheOpenRoad
I think Krugle is closes source like BlackDuck though, just parsing open
source.
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