This week at LWN: SCALE7x: Open source in an economic downturn

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 10, 2009 1:57 PM EDT
LWN.net; By Nathan Willis
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If you work with open source software, you have less to worry about in the current economic downturn, according to John Todd of Digium — the company behind the Asterisk telephony platform. Todd presented his ideas at SCALE in Los Angeles, arguing that many of the same factors that put jobs and revenue at risk in the proprietary software industry actually benefit open source projects and, by extension, provide job security for developers, implementers, and consultants who work with open source.

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