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Why Open Source Doesn't Interoperate

Posted by michael on from the playing-nicely-with-each-other dept.

bergie writes "There is an interesting article on Advogato on why it is so difficult for Open Source projects to interoperate or support common standards. Often cultural differences between projects, egoes, and many other issues stand in the way. The article outlines some practical ways for improving the situation, based on experiences from OSCOM efforts to get support WebDAV, SlideML and other standards into Open Source CMSs. Examples of successful interop projects include freedesktop.org, the cooperative effort between GNOME and KDE."

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  1. Ooooh, I know the answer! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    RMS is the reason! I GNU it all along!

  2. Hrm by The-Bus · · Score: 4, Funny

    You'd think if geeks couldn't "interoperate" with girls, at least they would be able to interoperate with other geeks on their projects.

    *ducks*

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  3. Re:Because free software is not planned by akadruid · · Score: 5, Funny

    So you're telling me that all those managers have actually been useful over the years?

    some sort of functional and or design specification
    That just about covers some of the best stuff I've been given to work with :)

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  4. Advogato's number by infinite9 · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, it's because there are 6.02 x 10^23 developers working on the system at any one time.

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