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Rating system to evaluate open-source software (News.com)
News.com has this report
(from the NY Times) on a rating system for open source software.
"The initiative, Business Readiness Ratings, is to be announced
Monday at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore. The rating
system, the sponsors say, will employ an open-source model with scores
determined by those who use certain programs and contribute their
judgments. The idea can be seen as a software version of the Zagat survey
of restaurants--rankings determined by customers."
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Rating system to evaluate open-source software (News.com) Posted Aug 1, 2005 20:45 UTC (Mon) by thompsot (guest, #12368) [Link] This is good in theory... It could aid in backing up your own research when it's time to sell an idea interally in corporate environments, or help you weed out potential time-wasters from the start. But what's to stop MS/SCO types and their hired hands from poisoning the information with bogus details and poor ratings?
Rating system to evaluate open-source software (News.com) Posted Aug 1, 2005 21:27 UTC (Mon) by thompsot (guest, #12368) [Link] OK.... After reading the whitepaper from openbbr.org, I see that I didn't fully understand the model and how the information was going to be gathered and submitted when I made the above comment. With the categories outlined (description of what the software contains, what it's for, how many developers are working on it, how long the project has been in existence, etc.), it has a lot of potential as a filtering tool even before drilling down to ratings by users of the software. It appears that attempts to poison the pot will be less successful than I thought because it's not just a user-experience rating system. Even though this type of information is available from other sources, it's unorganized and incomplete, so a project like this could be a big help to corporate types.Now I will recite rule 3, section 6, paragraph 4 of the "Online Comment Posting Guide" 100 times: "Never post when you aren't sure exactly what you are posting about, especially if you are posting first".
Rating system to evaluate open-source software (News.com) Posted Aug 2, 2005 3:09 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047) [Link] Yes, and don't forget to say 15 "Hail Mirskys", too. :-)
In seriousness, it does look like an interesting effort, but I'm a bit dismayed by the relative lack
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