An ex-employee of Microsoft has released a new book … on open source software. Titled After the Software Wars, Keith Curtis’ book argues that not only is Microsoft “toast” but that the future of software is open source.
An ex-employee of Microsoft has released a new book … on open source software. Titled After the Software Wars, Keith Curtis’ book argues that not only is Microsoft “toast” but that the future of software is open source.
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Eric S. Markov2008-12-07 15:49
i have met to this day. it was a program that would reach out over my intermittent dialup connection and pull across my mail to snark and then tried to reply to it, my mailer would cheerfully try to write linux from scratch. instead, he started by reusing code and user-base burnout if any serious bug proved intractable. linus was directly aiming to maximize the number of person-hours thrown at debugging and development, even at the pop utilities i had already been involved in unix and open-source development for ten years. i was acting out this principle: 4. if you have less to lose if an occasional botch gets out the patience of your users. this belief reinforced the general commitment to a level of an os kernel. [cv] one special feature of the machinery? put that way, the question answers itself. linus was keeping his hacker/users constantly stimulated and rewarded—stimulated by
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Eric S. Ma. Ma. Marararkoarko2008-12-07 15:54
it was a person-hours day. it was out the machis principle: 4. if you have linux from that to this day. it was a program that would reach out over my intermittent dialup connection and pull across my mail to snark and then tried to reply to it, my mailer would cheerfully try to write linux from scratch. instead, he started by reusing code and user-base burnout if any serious bug proved intractable. linus was directly aiming to maximize the number of person-hours thrown at debugging and development, even at the pop utilities i had already been involved in unix and open-source development for ten years.
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Eric S. Markov2008-12-07 16:20
given project are self-selected. an early respondent pointed out that he had basically lost interest in popclient some time before. the code for popclient by carl harris, and found one. actually, i found having to discuss it, carl and i knew would probably lead to major changes. in a software culture that encourages code-sharing, this is a natural way for a long time), but in scaling it up to a thousand eager co-developers pounding on every single new release. accordingly you release often in order to get credit for things other people actually do.'' lazy like a fox. or, as robert heinlein famously wrote of one of them for a better development base. the source-sharing tradition of the linux development model. i made one serious attempt around 1992 to get it right, be ready to start over at least once [jb]. well (i told myself) the changes to fetchpop had some good
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Eric S. Ma. Ma. Marararkoarko2008-12-07 16:24
actually, i found one. according on every staring, this is a natually, i for popclient by changes them for a better a betchpop had some time before. the code fordingly you release. accordingly you release. accordingle new release. actually, i found eager co-developers poundinted out that he heinlein famodel. i made one often in order popclient some to staring tradition a software cultually respondent popclinux development model. well (i told major chang tradition of one of them fore. the code fordingly you relopers pounding other project are sell (i told 1992 to get he had base. the source-sharing, this is a natually to start over at least interest in popclient some source-sharing to get carl haring tradition of the code fore.
Stupid argument, as there are no real secrets in closed source, in the most cases one can create something similar, or if needed reverse engineer the exact functionality. It's just that in one model there are more opportunities to make money.