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Covering Open Source

Friday November 6, 2009
As you've probably guessed, I'm a keen advocate of open source, albeit an equally keen user of closed source software, especially development tools. Having worked in a software house that sold software to banks, Closed software development is focused on providing something that the customer will buy. If they aren't focused then they're out of business sooner or later, whereas open source has the luxury of not needing to be commercial to survive. My point is that the world is big enough for both.

But it's also obvious that with 70 million + websites/blogs out there, there is almost certainly a lot of useful open source that is never heard about. So if you are working on an open source project (C, C++ and C# only) and would like a mention write to me at cplus.guide@about.com and tell me about your project, team etc.

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