Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better, Cheaper'

Posted by michael on 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."

2 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. Whoops! by Space+cowboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think a better strapline could have been thought of - this was the same as NASA's, yes ? At least sufficiently similar to attract attention, and then it all went pear-shaped...

    Consipiracy theorists will no doubt don tin hats and say it's all a front to associate Open Source with bad karma :-)

    Simon

    --
    Physicists get Hadrons!
  2. I Suspect It's Like Sex by Jameth · · Score: 3, Funny

    Faster and Cheaper go hand-in-hand, but are always the bane of that 'Better'.

    Oh well, two-out-of-three ain't so bad.

    So, anyone want fast, cheap sex?

    My number is, oh, hi honey...no I wasn't gonna...really......crap.