Computerworld Australia: Open Source is About More than Linux: Sun

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 21, 2003

[ Thanks to Jason
Greenwood
for this link. ]

“Open source is not about licences, Linux or free things but a
common mode of production, according to Sun Microsystems’ chief
technology evangelist Simon Phipps.

“An example of this common mode of production, he said, is
extreme programming by a peer group.

“‘This method often results in software superior to commercial
offerings,’ Phipps told delegates at the Distributed Systems
Technology Centre’s (DSTC) Evolve conference on enterprise
information integration in Sydney this week…”


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Web Webster

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