A week ago or so, I found a very interesting post, with a different view about FL/OSS on the Once More unto the Breach blog, called Why the Economics of Open Source Software is so Important.
It’s a longish and very interesting article, with a short but important historical intro about software sharing, an overview of why packaged software made sense at some point and then about how the web (and the internet in general) changed things in the mid/late 90’s.
Out of all the ideas that the author exposes, one jumped at me when I read the post the first couple of times:
Now good software has always been written by good software developers without regard for how they share it. There is a discipline to developing good software involving inspection, source code management, build automation, test automation, and facilities to encourage discussion and decision making. We all know what we should do to develop good software, but good software developers know of no other way.
Stephen makes other interesting points along the way, and the article is well worth a read…so…go read it! :)
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