Karen Challinor

UK

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open source is a global phenomenon, collaborating developers can be physically located on either side of the planet

open source makes no distinction on race, creed, age or gender

talent, skill, experience and enthusiasm are the prime factors driving it's development

businesses could learn a lot from the way open source projects are developed

national pride doesn't enter the equation, open source gets used because it solves the problem at hand and generally doesn't suffer from the "software bloat" that afflicts much of commercial software as the developing companies stuff yet more useless bells and whistles into the application in an attempt to make their product more attractive

open source generally only has features that the users of the software have asked for, or in some cases developed themselves

open source is a good thing, but not for the reasons that Mr Whitehurst is claiming