Recently we have seen real momentum developing behind Open Source software, largely as a result of the realisation that in the pursuit of software quality, cooperation is much more effective than competition. The promotion of Open Formats is another movement underway that, whilst not as publicly recognised as Open Source, is perhaps of more importance [...]
In the search for methodologies and patterns that help to build better quality software, we find that our methods continue to evolve at a blistering pace. Whether its the leap from procedural to object-oriented design, or the difference between the waterfall and prototyping approaches, all share the common goal of building robust, complex software systems. [...]
Some now speculate that the first real “thinking” machine will be the meta-computer, the Internet. This suggestion bears a particular resemblance to the suggestion made by Douglas Adams in The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, that the Earth is really a supercomputer designed to calculate the question to the answer to the meaning of life, [...]
The Open Source movement has long been associated with socialist ideals such as communism – typically by companies who see Open Source as a threat to their own business. The irony is that driving factors behind Open Source are the very reason they even have a business.
In the consumer software industry the quality of software [...]
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