Open Source: Smallville Becomes Metropolis

“Open source started as a small community with a set of ideals
about software development, believing that developers should make
their products more expedient and user-friendly by making the
underlying code accessible to everyone. As the open source software
movement has grown, the fundamental tenets have proven its merits.
As a result, now open source is being adopted by many of the
largest corporations in the world.

“Developers of open source software are not the ragtag bunch of
misfits that some imagine. They are highly skilled at their craft,
and because many of them are sponsored by commercial companies, the
code and materials they create are thoroughly tested and
scrupulously maintained. Developers and project managers extol the
virtues of access and collaboration that are intrinsic to their
code…”

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