Proprietary development shops can learn a few things from successful open source projects. Empirical evidence from these studies suggests that FOSS projects tend to have fewer defects per lines of code than does proprietary software, but why? Licensing alone won’t get you quality. Exemplary software quality comes from good engineering and from removing obstacles that [...]
About Joe Brockmeier
Joe Brockmeier is a freelance writer with more than 10 years experience working in and writing about IT. Brockmeier has served as community manager for openSUSE and as editor-in-chief of Linux Magazine. He has written for Linux Pro Magazine, Linux.com, IBM developerWorks, Ars Technica, and many other publications.
