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What Will Make Your Project Successful?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 9, 2009

“The Two Myths

“Here’s the myth that many commercial software companies
have:

“”The best software is the one with the most features. If we
could just get more features in our program, we’ll be able to get
more customers and topple Microsoft.”

“And here’s its equivalent at many open source projects:

“”The best open source project is the one with the most people.
If we get more people in our project, we’ll get more contributions
and more features, and then we’ll be able to topple Microsoft.”


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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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