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A Radical Idea: Giving Away Source Code

Posted August 4, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify

Reading through a recent issue of Computerworld, I couldn't help thinking of Yogi Berra's refrain about "deja vu all over again." Salaries are up, IT costs are rising, the Web is everywhere. Outsourcing continues -- to Bulgaria now, of all places -- and every hardware and software vendor seems to have a dazzling new product guaranteed to cure whatever ails us.

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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