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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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  1. My wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I wish there was a way for me, as a Christian, as a human being, to sit down with some of you and have a pleasant, civil discussion without bitterness or sarcasm. I don't force people to believe what I believe. I don't mock others with different beliefs. I hope I can find the words to explain myself, as my life goes on. I hope I can help people to see.

    1. Re:My wish by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I wish there was a way for me, as an Atheist, as a human being, to sit down with some of you and have a pleasant, civil discussion without bitterness or sarcasm. I don't force people to believe what I believe. I don't mock others with different beliefs. I hope I can find the words to explain myself, as my life goes on. I hope I can help people to see.

  2. How to crash linux. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Press alt, print screen and b at the same time. Your oh so stable Linux will crash. It may be flamebait to the zealots, but it is also Informative and Insightful, so mod this accordingly.

  3. Hello from SCO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is Darl McBride, and I'm here to remind you that I have patented making jokes about SCO.

    So anyone who makes a joke about SCO will have to pay me a $699 licensing fee per CPU.

  4. Re:My Experience With Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I bow to your magnificent trollitude. You really are a tool.

  5. Motto by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I think they should change their motto to Harder, Faster, Better, Stronger. Much more catchy.

  6. 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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  7. Re:My Experience With Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    but you have proper grammer

    Grammar, motherfucker!

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

    grammer == joke

    God damn it peeps.

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  9. Re:My Experience With Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    God damn it peeps.

    People, bitch!

  10. Re:My Experience With Open Source by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hehe, that was a fun read, you bickering, crazy kids.