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Re:The Conflict at the Heart of Open Source by tjgq on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @06:55AM (#7709505)
> The kind of software that everyone uses, but that is not a differentiator ("the secret sauce") that makes something stand out.

Doesn't OpenSSL fit this definition perfectly?

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Re:The Conflict at the Heart of Open Source by davidw on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @07:06AM (#7709528)
Sure, but that doesn't mean it works all the time, everywhere. Like I said: not a solved problem. It seems no one really stood up and took the lead to fix things.
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Re:The Conflict at the Heart of Open Source by angersock on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @11:55AM (#7710857)
"Sure, but that doesn't mean it works all the time, everywhere."

...which is a rather unsettling property in the foundation of your pyramid.

I agree with your theory--I'm just sad to see that there isn't always a lot of that in practice.

Hell, they almost killed off SPARC support on Debian a month ago because of developer ADD.

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