Scratch that itch!
January 18, 2006 § Leave a comment
Many business people seem to believe that open source software is not “professional,” e.g. that it is more prone to fail than closed software. Take a trip into the past … read about reliability of open-source software in “The Cathedral and the Bazaar“.
The cathedral and the Bazaar paper was behind Netscape’s innovative decision to take its client software open source. It describes a bazaar style of software development strategy that depends on open source and leads to high reliability and quality