Binstock does a quick compare and contrast between Ruby and NetRexx, showing how an active community promoted Ruby, and NetRexx's lack of a community left it languishing. I think that this analysis is only partly true, and misses part of the value of open source.

Specifically, IBM's proprietary NetRexx can't …

Here's a novel point of view on open source software.

'In fact, one of the things Google likes about open source software is that it facilitates secrecy. "If we had to go and buy software licenses, or code licenses, based on seats, people would absolutely know what the Google infrastructure …

What is the reward structure for open source?

If a corporate IT team builds software using open source components, CP insists, they've made a fundamental blunder. I forget CP's litany of concerns, but he worries that the software is unproven, untrustworthy, risky, etc., etc.

My argument that "you have the …