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Building a successful community-driven software project: part 1

There's a lot of buzz about open source software lately. Many projects are supposed to embrace the Bazaar development model, but they really don't, and their leaders just seem to ignore users a lot. This often leads both to wild forking - one new feature, one

By Alan Franzoni 19 Dec 2010

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Apple and OpenJDK: was I wrong?

Apple has announced it will contribute to the OpenJDK project, so there's probably no risk that MacOS-specific pieces of the current JDK will be lost. Probably the next, Oracle-backed JDK will be just fine on Mac and will probably be released on time. There're two things

By Alan Franzoni 21 Nov 2010

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Why Apple Should Not Ditch Java

I'm not an hardcore Apple user. My first Apple product ever was a Macbook Pro I bought about one year ago. But I fell in love with the Mac platform, and I think its really strong point is that it's versatile. It's got plenty

By Alan Franzoni 21 Oct 2010
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