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In my previous post, I attempted to make a distinction between Open Source and Open Source Software. Some folks took issue with the post and that’s great! I love a healthy debate. It’s an opportunity to learn. One minor request though. If you disagree...

By Sam Hennessy So, you want to be a programmer. Well you need to get a computer science degree right? Maybe, but would you like to know about a free alternative? Why not a computer science degree? Some of the best programmers have a computer science...

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Open source works by having many people contribute to the creation and maintenance of software. Thing is, it works well only when people are actually contributing. The recently publicized Heartbleed bug in OpenSSL is a perfect example. The flaw was...