because of the modular development model and the number of parties checking for errors, open-source software comes out with fewer errors and is more organized [end quote]. These simplistic tenets (more like dogma) continue to propagate on the blogosphere totally ignoring the actual tools that the corporate world and the consumer world use on a daily basis. The line between "propietary" software and "Open Source" software is getting blurrier and blurrier. Mac OS was built under the BSD Unix variant, for example, and would you call it that "close source"?. How about "shared source" vs "open source"? My point here is: articles and stands like this of Red Hat and kin are very simplistic and for those in the know it simply reads as a poorly thought out sales pitch. "American Idol" vs "Britney Spears". Please.
No "software development model is coming to an end". The article fails to sustain/prove/demonstrate what it claims in the header.
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Granted. There are benefits and amazing software products emanating from the Open Source realm, but I challenge the notion that
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