LXer: Product vs. project in open source
by LXer from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4TJXS)
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Open source is a good thing. Open source is a particularly good thing for security. I[he]#039[/he]ve written about this before (notably in Disbelieving the many eyes hypothesis and The commonwealth of open source), and I[he]#039[/he]m going to keep writing about it. In this article, however, I want to talk a little more about a feature of open source that is arguably both a possible disadvantage and a benefit: the difference between a project and a product.
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Open source is a good thing. Open source is a particularly good thing for security. I[he]#039[/he]ve written about this before (notably in Disbelieving the many eyes hypothesis and The commonwealth of open source), and I[he]#039[/he]m going to keep writing about it. In this article, however, I want to talk a little more about a feature of open source that is arguably both a possible disadvantage and a benefit: the difference between a project and a product.
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