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The Care and Feeding of Open Source Software

Posted by ryuzaki0 on 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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  1. The Author seems ignorant of Mac OS X by glennrrr · · Score: 3, Informative

    1) He doesn't seem aware that Mac OS X is a Unix derivative (more so than Linux). He firsts fails to include it in his list of popular commercial variants of Unix, and then he says that Linux will shortly be the only prominent Unix variant. I think most people think Mac OS X will be around longer than shortly, and it is the most widely used commercial Unix variant.

    2) He keeps calling it Macintosh, which is the general name for the hardware. The operating system is called Mac OS X.

    Other than that, an interesting enough article.