Monday, January 01, 2007
The Open-Source Solution
Why not use a communal approach to fix software?
By Larry Constantine
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| Credit: Illustration by Marc Rosenthal |
As you read this, countless programmers worldwide are collaborating to write, refine, and debug open-source software. Open-source pioneer Richard Stallman estimates that a million programmers now contribute to these efforts, in which the original written form of the code--the source--is made freely available for everyone to work on and worry over. Once a fringe phenomenon, the practice has grown into a major force in software development.
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