What we already knew, scientific-like
University of Oxford researcher have quantified the benefits of open source, saying that "'Closed-source' software, finessed by staff hired to work on information that users send in, requires higher-quality programmers and more users to attain the same level of perfection as open-source software in a comparable time," according to Nature.
The key: Feedback loops in proprietary systems are much smaller, reducing the number of bugs that can be identified. In other words, proprietary software is decidedly unclued.
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at June 30, 2003 09:54 AM | TrackBack