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Open Source Software as a Triumph of Information Hiding, Modularity, and Creating Optionality with Dr. Gail Murphy

The Idealcast with Gene Kim by IT Revolution

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Open Source Softer - Rails on Rails

Open source licenses and the g p l have recognized as effective and enforcable licensing tools in many jurisdictions around the world. It may unknowingly obligate you to make your code open sources well, whether you know it or not. Doctor murphy mentioned how automatic refractoring tools might have significant consequences to code that are not obvious. Martin fowler writes about somantic conflicts in the context of automated text merging. In fact there is a scene in the unicorn project where one reviewer tried to recapture that feeling of horror. That happened so much in my life with frameworks based on files which ordered themselves to ignore our file coace control systems all the time. Which gets us to number

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