Hangout for experimental confirmation and demonstration of software, computing, and networking. The exercises don't always work out. The professor is a bumbler and the laboratory assistant is a skanky dufus.
ACM News Service: Open-Source Users Find Rewards in Collaborative Development. The use of open-source arrangements for collaborative development among commercial communities is becoming of increasing appeal. The advice for successful organization of such efforts seems applicable to establishment of trustworthiness in horizontal as well as diagonal interoperability cases.
Alan Joch's 2005-02-01 Application Development Trends article provides useful information about how the approach is distrusted in commercial shops, while others find the savings in infrastructure costs of greater importance. There is also a kind of TROSTing behavior that is used to ensure that the result is trustworthy, especially in the case of customizations to more-general packages from other sources.
