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Idea: Creating a “Distributions Developers Forum”?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 18, 2007

“Scientific papers always have a ‘related works’ section, where
the authors describe how the work they are presenting compares with
what others did. In the Free Software world, this is nearly
non-existent: in a way, it seems that many of us are thinking of
their projects as competing products, fighting for market share. On
a project web page, I would love to read something like:

“This project is particularly well suited if you want XX. But if
YY is more important to you, you might want to have a look at
ZZ…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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