MIT Technology Review: The Open-Source Solution

“As you read this, countless programmers worldwide are
collaborating to write, refine, and debug open-source software.
Open-source pioneer Richard ­Stallman estimates that a million
programmers now contribute to these efforts, in which the original
written form of the code–the source–is made freely available for
everyone to work on and worry over. Once a fringe phenomenon, the
practice has grown into a major force in software development.

“Open source is both a movement and a method…”

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