I'd like to invite you to attend the last of the Michigan State University CSE colloquia for the 2008-2009 academic year: jointly sponsored as an AT&T Visiting Lecturer by the MSU LCT, and the CSE department, Sam Ramji will speak about
Open Source at Microsoft: The Past, Present and …read more
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Over at OLPC News, Wayan Vota asks: "Do you get better FOSS code ... if the developers are paid or unpaid?"
Interesting question, especially as considered in light of the OLPC code base.
As of about a year ago, virtually everybody I talked to was shocked and stunned at the poor …
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A local friend asked for advice on her OSS project, because her boss is questioning the value of making things OSS. Here's my rambling reply, preserved for posterity:
There are several de facto models of open source at this level (the small niche projects level, that is). The first is …read more
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