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by Baiju M.
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In India some organizations say that they are "producing open source software" and follow a cathedral style development model ! People who produce these so-called "open source" in India presume, "code" is everything and it can be released once everything is ready. But they fail to understand that free software is not only code but also a community of developers and users around it. How to build & sustain this community is very crucial to the success of any free software project.
Well, this may be true in other countries also. But recently I noticed this in some organizations especially few government funded projects.
Recently when I was traveling from Calicut to Bangalore in a night bus. I happened to meet an old fried of mine who is working with a government funded organization. Most of his work was software projects which they release under some free software license. One interesting thing I noticed is that they do a lot of duplicate works and unnecessary forks of existing free software projects.
Another thing which I inferred from our conversation is about their development model. The couldn't yet adapt the style of free software projects, which follows release often and release early culture, building a community around the software etc.
Update: One of my friend asked me whether I am targeting free software based custom software. No, I am not. A custom software may not be released at all.
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