Contents tagged with Open Source
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The Indulgences of Open Source
I am always amused by the complete lack of customer savviness that open source projects sometimes demonstrate. Of course I am not being fair at all and my observations are in no way scientific and I am sure you can find ten more examples of commercial companies doing the same. With that in mind, here are my two examples: -
Presentations at WinProTeam - ADO.NET interfaces, Gentle.NET, LINQ, Refactoring
Unfortunately my co-presenters were not able to make the WinProTeam presentation due to unforeseen circumstances so I went it alone. This meant that the topics had to change a little but the audience seemed agreeable. The schedule for the evening changed to:
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Open Source doesn't work (for your typical ISV)
Can you feel the flamethrowers warming up? :-) Larry O'Brien pointed me to this great SDTimes article "The Changing Face of Open Source". In the article, Andrew Binstock discusses the challenges in coming up to speed with a complex codebase and contributing real value as a 'volunteer'. He discusses how large projects tend to be primarily driven by commercial developers and concludes that the economics ultimately comes back to the same model as traditional closed source software.
