Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better, Cheaper'

Posted by michael on Saturday December 6, 2003 @01:17AM from the plan-for-success dept.

David Hart writes "Faster, Better, Cheaper: Open-Source Practices May Help Improve Software Engineering -- Walt Scacchi of the University of California, Irvine, and his colleagues are conducting formal studies of the informal world of open-source software development, in which a distributed community of developers produces software source code that is freely available to share, study, modify and redistribute. They're finding that, in many ways, open-source development can be faster, better and cheaper than the 'textbook' software engineering often used in corporate settings."

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Open source development by Anonymous Coward · 2003-12-06 01:22 · Score: 0, Flamebait

Thank god we have another study on this topic that concludes that open source development r0x0rs and closed source sux0rs. I'm certain that this one will truly change a lot of managerial minds out there and that Monday morning we'll all come into a workplace that has adopted open source development practices.

Get real, folks, the PHB types have been taking note of all the security incidents in the open source world lately, and at this point you couldn't get them to touch anything "open source" with a ten foot pole.