Open Source vs Closed Source

  • Don't worry. No politics in this talk
  • Black boxes are great but they need lids!
  • No barriers to learning
  • No barriers to getting the job done
    • logic is never perfect. You need to change the contents and interfaces
    • Software does mean, logic that is easy to change, after all
    • Data should not be proprietry. It's your data!
    • Example: Memory leak in MTS in 1999
      • Very large web app, with lots of dependencies
      • Vendor solution was upgrade operating system
      • Solution used was to clone hardware and do round robin reboot