Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 15th Oct 2006 11:02 UTC, submitted by michuk
"There is one huge difference between the free and non-free software that has some very practical implications in the way we use it. One of those implications are the dependencies between single software packages in the free software model. What do they have to do with the free software philosophy and why should not you be afraid of them? Read on to find this out."
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2005-09-11
In OSS, by modularizing a portion of an application and making it a new project, from a selfish perspective you can get more developers effectively working on your application. For example, they use the library in their applications yet need to improve it in a few ways.