Fitzpatrick and Collins-Sussman, two long-time open source gurus now plying their trade at Google believe in open source projects that maintain a small "bus factor." That would be the number of contributors who could be hit by a bus before a project collapses. A simple means of maintaining a small bus factor is baring names from source code.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Google Defends Open Source from 'Poisonous People'
Top 10 Firefox 3 Features
The newest version of our favorite open source web browser, Mozilla Firefox 3, offers dozens of new features and fixes, but only a handful will make the most dramatic difference in your everyday browsing. It's time to spotlight the biggest improvements that will make "Gran Paradiso" the browser to beat.
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Top 5 Web Browsers That Aren't IE, Safari, or Firefox
Those three browsers take up a collective 97.1 percent share of the market. But what about the rest of us slobs who protest anything corporate, reject anything mainstream, and don't even know why? There is surprising amount of excellent web browsers that get no love at all. And these are our five favorites.
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