At its best, is open source unbeatable
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When an open-source project is working optimally, can proprietary-software companies hope to compete?
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Greg Kroah-Hartman, a prominent Linux kernel developer and Novell fellow, suggests that the answer is no. Speaking to the How Software Is Built blog, Kroah-Hartman makes puma future cat the case that the pace of Linux development leaves competition in the dust:
[The Linux kernel development team adds] 11,000 lines, remove[s] 5,500 lines, and modif[ies] 2,200 lines [of co puma shoes de] every single day.
People ask whether we can keep that up, and I have to tell you that every single year, I say there's no way we can go any faster than this. And then we do. We keep growing, and I don't see that s Jordan 4 shoes lowing down at all anywhere.
I mean, the giant server guys love us, the embedded guys love us, and there are entire processor families that only run Linux, so they rely on us. The fact that we're Jordan retro 22 out there everywhere in the world these days is actually pretty scary, from an engineering standpoint. And even at that rate of change, we maintain a stable kernel.
It's something that no one juicy couture bracelets company can keep up with. It would actually be impossible at this point to create an operating system to compete against us. You can't sustain that rate of change on your juicy couture necklaces own.
Microsoft might beg to differ, as would Apple, but the reality is that neither is updated as often or as extensively as Linux is, which supports a far broader cheap gucci handbags hardware portfolio than any other operating system in existence.
Linux is pretty incredible. But it's not alone. Mozilla Firefox, Eclipse, and other projects produce best-in-class software at an almost frigh buy gucci bags tening pace.
Can anyone compete with an open-source project at the top of its game?
The answer might well be no, as the top open-source projects are collaborative efforts between multiple companies that poo juicy couture watches l resources and expertise to drive development. And while it might seem reasonable that a single corporation could best open source's seeming "development by committee" approa Jordan 19 shoes ch, the reality is that well-managed open-source projects have none of the inertia that one might expect from a communal approach.
Quite the opposite.
Having said that, very few open-so Jordan retro 13 urce projects actually meet the criteria that enable Linux's success. Most appeal to a too-narrow and too-small population of developers (i.e., single-company projects) to glean the benefits and scal puma sneakers e of Linux-like development.
As such, the proprietary-software companies probably won't have to worry about competing with indomitable open-source competitors. Not most of the time, anyway.
For those that do Jordan retro 12 , however, better stock up on the pumpkin pie. It may be the only thing to be grateful for this Thanksgiving season.
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Matt Asay is chief operating officer at Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux operating system. Prior to Canonical, Matt was general manager of the Americas division and vice president of
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business development at Alfresco, an open-source applications company. Matt brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging o
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pen-source business strategies and opportunities. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. You can follow Matt on Twitter @mjasay. Topics: Industry news, Development, Number crunching Tags: Linux, open source, Greg Kroah-Hartman, proprietary software, innovation Share: Digg Del.icio.us Reddit Facebook Twitter
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