Open source or proprietary?
Posted on June 20, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Open source software development methodology is based on voluntary contribution from geeks around the globe. Followers of it strongly believe into evolutionary and collaborative progress. It appeals to giving-back nature of people and as participants work on projects they enjoy to work on, naturally gives better quality products. On the other hand, proprietary i.e. closed [...]
Are software patents evil?
Posted on March 28, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Software patents have constantly been under the fire of debates; if you are not yet exposed to it, following links are for you -
Arguments against software patents
Arguments against the arguments above
Patent system is more than 200 years old now. It was devised to address two main problems related to inventions -
You invent a great [...]
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Free = open source?
Posted on March 21, 2008 | Categorized under Software
Some think and often use these two terms - Free Software (FS) and Open Source Software (OSS) - interchangeably. That’s not completely right. Moreover, some relate both these terms with softwares available for free of any charge. And that’s completely wrong.
Both, OSS and FS, offer free softwares but the word “free” here [...]
