Open-Source Development 'Faster, Better, Cheaper'

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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[Space cowboy]

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