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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. forp by gasaraki · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    farst porng

  2. "an interesting article"? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Somebody needs to count how many times an article on /. has been introduced as "an interesting article", with those words hyperlinked to the actual article. It almost seems like every second /. story is like this.

    Get some variety, people!

  3. ooooh... magic by fodi · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    You WILL read this post...

    You WILL read this post...

    Muahahaa!!

  4. Re:Open Source by Aliencow · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Talking about gaming, anyone has benchmarks of Gentoo's gaming-sources kernel compared to the vanilla one ? (Unreal 2003 benchmarks on nvidia would be interesting...) If not, I think I will do some on my crappy Geforce 2mx.... If the kernel brings it up to par, it means it's an awesome branch !

  5. Dan Quayle is posting to /. now by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You say potatoe, I say potato!

    You egoe, I say ego!