• 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