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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Open Source

[the_real_rs]

is the best way to go. Its free and you no licenceing fees. And best of all you don't have bill saying "NO thats my code you can't edit that, the set_bugs=true must be in the code or it won't work at all.