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OSS Developers Provide A Glimmer of Hope

Posted by Zonk on from the making-things-that-suck-less dept.

sebFlyte writes "In a recent speech at the ACCU conference in Oxford, software design guru James Coplein said that unless consumers start demanding more and putting up with less crap from software firms, the quality of proprietary software would keep spiralling down. He was full of praise for open source though, saying 'The complementary, independent, selfless acts of thousands of individuals can address system problems -- there are thousands of people making the system stronger.'"

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  1. It's Coplien... by 0xC0FFEE · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those not in the know like me. He is/was a researcher at bell labs and worked on all things related to the activity of developing software.