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Rating System for Open Source Software

Posted by timothy on from the smartly-smartly dept.

prostoalex writes "Carnegie Mellon University, Intel and SpikeSource are launching a rating system for open source software, New York Times says. OpenBRR 'is being proposed as a new standard model for rating open source software. It is intended to enable the entire community (enterprise adopters and developers) to rate software in an open and standardized way.'"

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  1. Oh No! by AAeyers · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could be hurtful! Everyone should be a winner!

    Think of the children!

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  2. FUD from the NYT by Catamaran · · Score: 4, Insightful
    The author of the article talks as though evaluating software objectively were a problem unique to adopters of Open Source:
    Free software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations to use. A few freely distributed programs, like the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, have become well known, but most are still unproved.
    A more simple and accurate statement would be, "Software can be confusing and costly".
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  3. About freakin' time. by generic-man · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you execute a specific elisp file at a key time, emacs displays a very graphic mini-game involving Richard Stallman. As a responsible parent, I want to make sure that this sort of thing isn't seen by my children when I'm not watching them.

    I applaud this rating system and wish it well.

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