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• SourceForge.net Adds Support for Git

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Mon 2 Mar 2009 at 23:04

  Type

  Blog Entry

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  Late last week SourceForge.net announced support for Git - a distributed revision control system - to complement their existing offerings of SVN and CVS. Git is a free distributed revision control system aimed at speed and efficiency for large code projects. It has some distinct advantages over CVS and SVN, primarily its distributed model over CVS and SVN's server-client model. It was initially designed for the Linux kernel, but is now used by a number of other high-profile projects, including Perl, Wine, VLC, Ruby on Rails, and others. Git…

• Is Money Useful to Open Source Apps?

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Sat 13 Sep 2008 at 0:35

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  Blog Entry

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  3 comments

  Two months ago, Jeff Atwood posted on his blog, Coding Horror, about his experience donating $5000 to the open source .Net project ScrewTurn Wiki. In a nutshell, Atwood donated $5000 of his advertising revenue into the project and four months later none of the money had been spent. Most single-developer applications simply run on time and not on money. Developers tend to work on open source projects, at least at first, simply for the enjoyment, doing the development in their free time. Personally, I imagine if Ottoman was still an active …

• Advantages to Giving Software Away for Free

  Author

  Ethan Poole

  Date

  Wed 28 May 2008 at 11:28

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  Blog Entry

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  2 comments

  If you have ever been involved in the process of launching a piece of software to the public, then you know the difficulties and the costs of doing so. There is much more to do than just to launch your software to the world. First, let's just take a look at some of the basics of what you need to handle after launching an application (that do not involve programming): Support (email, phone, helpdesk, etc.) Licensing Marketing There is no way around support and marketing if you want a successful application, but luckily both can be …

• Why Open Source?

  Author

  Miranda Marquit

  Date

  Tue 1 Apr 2008 at 20:32

  Type

  Article

  Open source software is uprooting the long-held software markets of proprietary vendors to provide businesses of all sizes with affordable, practical software solutions. Powerful CMSs, such as Drupal, Joomla, and Wordpress, are becoming increasingly practical software solutions. Here Miranda discusses the advantages for a business to use open source software. Make open source part of your future!