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IBM Jazz Edges Closer To Open Source

Posted by kdawson on from the collaboration-wants-to-be-free dept.

hhavensteincw writes "IBM is molding its Jazz technology, which helps software development teams collaborate, in the image of its popular Eclipse open source community. IBM said that today's move to open access to its Jazz.net portal to anyone to peruse its code, access bug lists, etc. puts it on the path to completely open-source the Jazz technology."

2 of 76 comments (clear)

  1. Re:What is Jazz by eison · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not lazy - it's just that the explanation doesn't explain. That description could describe everything from Sharepoint to Wikipedia to SourceForge to kitchen refrigerator magnets, and as such it doesn't actually tell me anything useful, like wtf is Jazz?

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    is competition good, or is duplication of effort bad?
  2. Re:Wall street is waking up by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    No. It's because I farted 17.5 times that day.

    Nobody really knows why any stock goes up or down. People make up stories that seem to explain the reason, but they are nothing more than speculation.

    For example the earnings report and buyout news may have triggered a small rise, which lead to a feeding frenzy which lead to programmed selling which damped the increase from the frenzy. Or it may be related to my propensity to break wind.

    To say that certain factors may have lead to an increase in price is reasonable, to claim direct causation is fallacy.