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EU-Funded EDOS To Simplify Open Source Development

Posted by timothy on from the worthy-cause dept.

An anonymous reader writes "a consortium of European research institutions and open source software companies have paired up to manage the complexity of large scale, modular projects by establishing a program called EDOS, Environment for the Development and Distribution of Free Software. Planners intend to move away from centralized builds and storage to a distributed process, form a language-agnostic bug testing system and turn to theoretical computer science to safeguard dependencies."

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  1. EDOS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Please don't tell me that it's funded my Microsoft...

    1. Re:EDOS? by gilesjuk · · Score: 1, Funny

      If it is they will simplify open source developement by eradicating it.

  2. Feh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't believe they really wintend to

  3. EDOS? by quamaretto · · Score: 2, Funny

    When I first looked at the article, I was thinking "European Disk Operating System. Jesus, those Europeans have to have everything their own way. What next, AntarctiVMS?"

    So, I suppose I should RTFA now out of respect for the poster. Heh. Heh heh.

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  4. Re:sounds like a European project allright! by maxwell+demon · · Score: 2, Funny

    You should use a less noisy line for you internet access. :-)

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  5. oh my god!!! by spectrokid · · Score: 2, Funny

    Did anybody else read the title and think they were going to devellop an alternative to MSDOS?

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  6. Re:Wow by B3ryllium · · Score: 3, Funny

    Obviously you weren't around for the HTTP-Server-Running-On-A-Potato post.

    Mmm, baked potato.

  7. Re:I stand corrected by IpalindromeI · · Score: 2, Funny

    I read the fucking article.

    <blink>

    You are correct; I was wrong.

    <blink blink>

    I could have sworn I was still reading Slashdot. What site is this?

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