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The Software Iceberg /\ / \ / \ / open \ / source \ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
by edw519 16y ago
The Software Iceberg
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- davidw 16y agoFunny, I have the pyramid exactly the other way: open source should be the infrastructure, the base the 'crown jewels' at the tip of the pyramid are built on top of. Especially for 'lean startup' types of deals, where the lines of code for your startup will be several orders of magnitude less than what it's based on: Linux, postgres/mysql/nosql, tcl/perl/python/ruby/php/erlang etc....
- edw519 16y agoI was referring to volume of code written, not function. You bring up an interesting (and IMO valid) observation. I guess this picture was only worth 999 words.