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Friday, October 06, 2006

Open Source - Weakness and strength

An article on Zdnet recently highlighted one of open source modele weakness with the example of openoffice.

You depend on contribution from the communauty of developers to move the software forward - but managing these contributions (if there are any!) can be an expensive task. Conclusion, you need to fund an open source initiative, nothing comes in free...

Technewsworld on the other hand posts offers an interesting article about the benefits of open source, listing a serie of projects which have been successful at embracing this modele. Good read

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