More of the Open Source Value Proposition

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 …

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Creating Value with Open Source Solutions

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 …

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