Evaluating Open Source

Posted by michael on Tuesday June 1, 2004 @10:08AM from the but-what-about-phase-2? dept.

CowboyRobot writes "Jordan Hubbard cofounded FreeBSD and now oversees the Darwin implementation of BSD for Apple. He describes open source as 'finally being openly acknowledged as a commercial engineering force-multiplier and important option for avoiding significant software development costs.' And thus, companies need to know how to evaluate open source engineering as an option for them. In a new article titled Open Source to the Core, Hubbard goes through a typical open source adoption process."

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Re:a few extra notes from someone using OSS by iguana · 2004-06-01 10:54 · Score: 5, Interesting

I agree. In my experience over the last several years, I've found people who use OSS projects tend to be more self-starters, curious, and technically adept.

I joke that you learn a lot with Linux, et al, because you *have* to. Show me someone who is running Linux (or BSD) at home and I'll show you someone who knows and likes computers.