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How To Tell Open-Source Winners From Losers

Posted by Hemos on from the sifting-chaff-&-wheat dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There are 139,834 open-source projects under way on SourceForge. IWeek wonders which projects will make lasting contributions, and which will fizzle. Sure, Linux, Apache, and MySQL are winners, but what about OpenVista, FLOSSmole, and Hyperic HQ? What's your list of open-source winners and losers?"

2 of 218 comments (clear)

  1. Frozen-bubble by Schraegstrichpunkt · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Uh-oh!

    Yeah.

    Frozen.

    Bubble.

    I only play so I can listen to the lyrics.

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  2. Re:Jakarta by cibyr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    *shudders*

    I had an experience with Java Server Faces a few weeks ago. As much as it seems like a cool idea, sometimes objects are *not* the answer. The problem I had to solve would have been much easier with a few lines of perl, instead of a bunch of java beans with a zillion properties and (IMHO) a huge dirty hack to get around the (completely artificial) limitation that you can't pass arguments to methods you call from a page.

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