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What Open Source shares with Science

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ZDNet; By Con Zymaris 		Mail this story
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One of the overlooked advantages that Open Source development affords, is that it imitates perhaps the most fruitful and beneficial of all human endeavours: Science. How has the scientific-method evolved, and what can it teach us about the future possibilities of software construction?

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montezuma ·
As a scientist this was what attracted me to open source in the first place. Sharing of knowledge and rejection of ideas that don't work is the great strength of the scientific method and now open source software. As Torvalds has said: "Linux is evolution not intelligent design"

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