Brian W. Fitzpatrick is an officer and member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is also a senior software engineer at CollabNet, where he works full-time on the open source version control system Subversion. Brian is also a co-author of the O'Reilly book "Version Control with Subversion.
The Apache Software Foundation is one of many open source software
organizations shaking the business world all the way down to its proprietary
software toes. Along with Linux, the Apache HTTP Server has long been the
consummate example of the power and quality of open source software. Its
runaway success against Microsoft IIS illustrates that the better product can
triumph over both monopoly and marketing dollars.
Today, most small software development companies are acutely aware of the
advantages of collaborating on open source software; at the very least,
they're aware of the high costs of writing and maintaining closed-source
software. With so little to be gained by writing and maintaining commodity
software components (e.g., a Web server, a relational database, or an
operating system), many companies are finding it cheaper to use and
contribute bugfixes to an ... (more)
Brian W. Fitzpatrick is an officer and member of the Apache Software Foundation. He is also a senior software engineer at CollabNet, where he works full-time on the open source version control system Subversion. Brian is also a co-author of the O'Reilly book "Version Control with Subversion.
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