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eWeek: Open-Source Advocates: Microsoft’s Development Model Is Failing

“Proponents of the free and open-source software development
model are using the recently announced delays in the shipping of
Microsoft’s Windows Vista and Office 2007 products as an example of
how the company’s software engineering process simply does not work
well.

“They are also pointing to how it stands in direct contrast with
the way software gets developed in the free and open-source
community, and using the delays to explain why theirs is the better
choice…”

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