Why Do I Love Open Source?

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Open Collective

#Crowdfunding #Fundraising And Donation Management #Online Payments 72 social mentions

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BitBucket

We must be careful that the value, worth, and success of open-source projects are not measured by vanity metrics such as stars on GitHub or attempts at gaming the GitHub trending algorithm. For one thing, not all open source worth investment happens on GitHub, there are also platforms such as GitLab, Codeberg, and BitBucket where a lot of great work is being done. Some people also overblow the success of a project by purchasing social media accounts and carefully curating actions to ensure their project trends or goes viral. To me, this is a race to the bottom where everyone loses.

#Git #Code Collaboration #Project Management 73 social mentions

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Apache

Back in 2015, Java was owned by Sun Microsystems (now part of Oracle) and along with MySQL had a thriving open-source community and ecosystem. A lot of this was under the Apache and Eclipse Foundations. I fondly remember projects such as Tomcat, BERT, the Eclipse IDE, Maven, and so forth.

#Web And Application Servers #Web Servers #Application Server 20 social mentions