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"Most Open Source projects are started by extremely clever, slightly dysfunctional geniuses who have been forced to leave either IBM or Sun because of their 'issues'. This leads them to decide that the best way to improve on their unique, creative vision is to allow approximately twelve million nerds worldwide to pick their code to bits. Eventually, with all Open Source projects, one of the nerds will make a 'bid for power', at which point there will be a 'branch'. A branch is much the same as an improvement, except not. Just as one Open Source programmer, who is drunk on meths at a Star Trek Enterprise convention, states, 'Imagine Excel, but with a flight simulator in it.' That kind of wank is precisely what you can expect from an Open Source application. This is why 98% of all OS websites are flame war, and the other 2% is intelligible."
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Open Source development adds a new dimension to Java code, its communities, and its users. It presents both unfettered opportunity to innovate and logistical challenges involving how to share code and with whom. This year this track shines a spotlight on some of the people and projects here today, ahead of the curve in an open source world that now embraces Java technology. Sessions focus on real-world examples and experiences-both big and small, known and new-with developing and leveraging code that uses a free/open source model. Learn technical details of code bases, how to develop and contribute code, how to collaborate on projects beyond just the bits, and how these projects and processes can make your own development projects more valuable - to you as well as your customers.
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UPDATE NOVEMBER 18TH: Brendan @ The Other Open Source is still griping on with a Part II of the saga of the name which he claims. Jeff Jarvis thinks it’s all quite fishy. Ann Althouse is confused and quite rightly points out the inconsistencies. Kevi…
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