Slashdot: FeaturesNews for nerds, stuff that mattersThe State of the Open Source Union, 2004- February 28, 2005 Mark Stone writes with a thoughtful look back at the year 2004 in open source, pointing out both major gains and inevitable uncertainties. He writes "2004 stands out as a year in which open source consolidated its position as a valuable and accepted approach to business and technology policy. A less obvious but significant trend underlies all of this: even as open source business models join the mainstream, the open source development model remains a mysterious process on which large technology.http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotFeatures/~3/76608915/article.pl |