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IBM Turns to Open Source Development

Posted by Zonk on from the turning-up-in-lots-of-places dept.

mmmbop writes "'Is open source changing the way that software is made? It is at IBM. BetaNews sat down with Doug Heintzman, IBM Software Group's VP of Strategy and Technology, to discuss the adoption of a hybrid development model called Community Source that combines the best elements of the open source model with decades of IBM programming practice - avoiding a top down approach that IBM says could make Microsoft's Longhorn obsolete upon arrival.' A long read, but well worth it."

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  1. IBM - the golden boy now by aCapitalist · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I guess IBM hopes that everybody would just forget when they were hated like Microsoft back in the early 80s and before.

    But this is great for IBM...free labor always is. I guess there is a new breed of programmer that doesn't value their work anymore.

    Not only that, but they just help out MegaloCorp in their new "services" business model.

    I guess the days of the independent developer is all but gone. You might as well get a day job at McDonalds and code for IBM, RedHat, Sun and others for free when you get home at night......NOT!