My enthusiasm grew as I listened to his presentation. In many ways, the challenge was like many others we had learned about and even experienced ourselves. As Trunnell described his plans, it reminded me of the evolution of software development. In the early days of Microsoft’s history, developers protected their source code as a trade secret, and most tech companies and other organizations developed their code by themselves. But open source had revolutionized the creation and use of software. Increasingly software developers were publishing their code under a variety of open-source models
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