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IBM Donates Parts of Rational to Open Source

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the swiss-army-knife-of-dreams dept.

slashbob22 writes "IBM has decided to contribute portions of the Rational Unified Process to the Eclipse Foundation. From the article: 'RUP is a vast collection of methods and best practices for promoting quality and efficiency throughout software development projects. IBM's donation will also provide a foundation architecture and Web-based tools for the industry to engineer, collaborate on, share and reuse software development best practices.'"

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  1. heh by Ooblek · · Score: 4, Funny

    If you can't sell it....DONATE IT!!!

  2. Irrational by yintercept · · Score: 4, Funny

    Giving away half a product away may not seem rational, but it is shrewd. You have the engine, would you like to buy the key.

    As for for the decision to give half the product away, I understand IBM was thinking of giving away the square root of the product away ... Now, THAT would have been irrational.