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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."

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  1. Are you sure that's not... by real_smiff · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    ... Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger ? ;)

    and it'll be a miracle if i'm 1st with that! :p

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  2. Re:My Experience With Open Source by tomstdenis · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    grammer == joke

    God damn it peeps.

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