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Source code as a safeguard
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| I shall finish off with a quote by a representative of the natural sciences,
| a mathematician to be more exact, who has taken the consequence of scientific
| accountability and, as the project leader of the free software application
| TeXmacs, has presented the following conclusions:
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http://www.internetling.com/2009/05/27/source-code-as-a-safeguard/
Releasing Your Code as Open-Source: What Do You Change?
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| I've heard it a dozen times: "We're going to release this app as open source,
| as soon as we clean it up." It's always made me wonder what, exactly, needs
| to be cleaned up, and what it looked like beforehand. The implication is that
| the "Before" picture is something of a mess.
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http://www.javaworld.com/community/?q=node/2994
Recent:
Google's open-source Android now actually open
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| Google has one team of programmers building the software and another
| professional services group to help support phone makers building Android
| phones. Now, though, as T-Mobile's G1 arrives on the market, Google hopes to
| multiply that by drawing upon the collective energy of outside contributors
| to the project.
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| "Our plan is a launching point for a much more vibrant open-source
| community," said Rich Miner, vice president of Google's mobile platforms
| business. "For the past almost four years, this has been a large effort
| between Google and our partners. There have been a lot of people working on
| the code, but that's going to be multiplied by several orders of magnitude."
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| Open-source software can be freely used, modified, and redistributed by
| anyone, freedoms that make it a daunting competitor to proprietary software
| companies that charge for the code. Although open-source software rarely has
| been the sole basis for a thriving company, it can be a powerful tool to aid
| a broader agenda. Sophisticated technology companies such as IBM, Oracle, and
| even Apple often subsidize open-source projects for that reason, and Android
| fits into that category.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10071093-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
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