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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"Cheaper" is good

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CEO's and CFO's love cheap. They have been looking for a while for ways now to pay their workers less and less and employ less people. Their utimate goal is to find a legal method to make suckers, I mean people, work for free.

Looks like they found it! I never thought in 2003 that engineers would be working for mega-corporations for free.

Re:My Experience With Open Source

[tomstdenis]

good catch. I bow before the master. You may be a rude arrogant little prick, but you have proper grammer and that I respect.

Tom