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Christian Science Monitor Putting OSS at the Helm
Jane Walker writes to tell us that the Christian Science Monitor is becoming quite the proponent of open source. The aggressive nature of OSS was a large part of what drew CIO Curtiss Edge into the fold, it seems. From the article: "But beyond the tangibles like open source code it was the community that made a convert of Edge. Behind all the open code, it was the forums and flexibility that were the driving forces he believes breeds better developers than those that toil away with proprietary code. Open source software makes developers more aggressive and more apt to go out into the communities that exist around the software to find solutions to their problems, Edge said, rather than holding on some proprietary help desk line while tech support looks up the answer."
Open source fanatics meet religious fanatics. I have a bad feeling about this. Just kidding about the fanatics part mind you, there are some real nice people in the open source movement.
Philosophy.
I imagine a lot of their money problems are because of their name. They should really just change it to The Monitor.
It's the bad side of brand recognition. "Christian Science" in the title of a secular newspaper is about equivalent to including the word "Urine" in the title of your new brand of soft drink.
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Where religion, science and politics are the same.
("CSM" what a retarded piece of BULLSHIT!)