DocumentCode
1471739
Title
Is the open-source community setting a bad example?
Author
Wilson, Greg
Author_Institution
Toronto, Ont., Canada
Volume
16
Issue
1
fYear
1999
Firstpage
23
Lastpage
25
Abstract
My, how the world has changed. IBM is now backing Apache, Netscape has put an extraordinary amount of useful software out into the open, and vendors such as Metrowerks, Sybase and Oracle have released versions of their tools to run on a give-away operating system. It seems that the open-source movement-Linux, Perl, Apache, and their many cousins-has finally hit the big time. But my, how the world has stayed the same. EGGS (a derivative of the Free Software Foundation´s GNU C++) is one of the few compilers around that has kept pace with the ANSI standard, but CVS, the open-source version control system, is 1O years behind equivalent commercial offerings. Linux is now more robust than some commercial varieties of Unix, but it´s impossible to compare the reliability of open-source project management tools to that of Microsoft Project because the former don´t exist
Keywords
configuration management; project management; public domain software; Apache; Free Software Foundation; Linux; Perl; open-source movement; open-source project management tools; reliability; ANSI standards; Control systems; Electrocardiography; Linux; Open source software; Operating systems; Programming profession; Robustness; Software tools; Testing;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Software, IEEE
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0740-7459
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/52.744561
Filename
744561
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