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Open Source Summit Report

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the stuff-to-read dept.

An anonymous reader sent us a Report on Open Source Summit that you might want to read. I was scheduled to attend, but LinuxWorld drained me to much- I'm kinda bummed, but this article will give you a good overview of what apparently happened. Its the Open Source world colliding with the biz world, and the sparks definitely fly.

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  1. Great article by BillWhite · · Score: 2

    This is a great article. I think I've decided, after something like 15 years of professional software engineering, that what RMS is reputed to believe is actually right. Commerce is fraud. I don't know if RMS believes it in fact, probably not, but it seems that when commerce drives engineering, quality is the victim. The value of Free Software is that people are creating things because they care about how well they work, and now how much lucre they can squeeze out of customers, so quality is the only criterion.