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The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday January 2, 2005 @03:21AM from the something-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader writes "You might find The Care and Feeding of FOSS (Free Open Source Software) interesting. This article debunks a lot of the myths and misunderstandings about the open-source software development process."

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It's Not? by sugapablo · 2005-01-02 03:28 · Score: 5, Funny

"Free Open-Source Software is not the brainchild of latter-day hippies, nor is it the doom of Western commerce."

It's not?!?

Damn!

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Re:Be honest by Okonomiyaki · 2005-01-02 03:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Only on Slashdot would the explanation to "non-geeks" come in the form of a Star Trek analogy.
Re:Be honest by BorgCopyeditor · 2005-01-02 05:13 · Score: 5, Funny

And only on Slashdot would the old saw "you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" be described as a "Star Trek ideal."
Just sayin'.

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