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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. Why does Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ...sometimes show me the same page over and over again in long stories? There'll be 8 pages, but 3, 4 & 5 are all the same.

    1. Re:Why does Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Slashdot doesn't allow nested comment threads greater than 100 comments long. It also doesn't allow breaks in threads between pages. This produces rather silly results. They should really fix this.

    2. Re:Why does Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
      It's not a bug, it's a feature.

      - Taco

    3. Re:Why does Slashdot... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Yea that's something that really pisses me off, so much so that I rarely read more than the first page of comments. This is probably why people always post comments as replies to early posts even when they should be starting a new thread (as they know very few people will read past the first page).