Tag: open source

  • Why wrong licenses kill good products

    Being on the ODBMS train of thought, I checked out a few products that are out there, and something struck me – all of them would be really difficult to bring in to a project. The reason is not technical, but rather one of hassle. All of the products are either proprietary closed-source or GPL […]

  • Home Cooked vs Open Source. Or, Don’t Build Your Own Workflow.

    First thing’s first. I love open source. I think that it’s the best thing since sliced bread. That thing that we were always told about since computer science, that of the open marketplace for components to be shared and reused HAS happened. Just not in the “buy this billing component” kind of way. It’s even […]