Open Source Programming Tools On the Rise

snydeq writes "Peter Wayner takes a look at several open source development projects making waves in the enterprise. From Git to Hadoop to build management tools, 'even in the deepest corners of proprietary stacks, open source tools can be found, often dominating. The reason is clear: Open source licenses are designed to allow users to revise, fix, and extend their code. The barber or cop may not be familiar enough with code to contribute, but programmers sure know how to fiddle with their tools. The result is a fertile ecology of ideas and source code, fed by the enthusiasm of application developers who know how to "scratch an itch."'"

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Re:Really?

[aztracker1]

Agreed... I've always disliked it because most of the extensions are globally accessible, inconsistently named and implemented from each other, usually in favor of closer ties to underlying libraries over consistent conventions in the platform. People bitched about the MS-IE and Netscape API differences in the v4 days... imagine half of one and half of the other cut up haphazardly and thrown into one soup pot and distilled down, then half-baked with too much flower... that's PHP.