How to Evaluate Open Source Software / Free Software (OSS/FS) Programs

https://dwheeler.com/oss_fs_eval.html

it to Windows. Today's computers and OSS/FS operating systems are so inexpensive that it's often cheaper to buy special-purpose computers for a task than to try to change the appl
This paper describes how to evaluate open source software

Peter Neumann's Home Page

https://www.csl.sri.com/users/neumann/

of the ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy (CCPP), which I chaired since 1985 -- until it was disbanded in 2018 as part of a complete reorganization of ACM committees. (T

Online BYTE Archive

https://halfhill.com/bytelink.html

the most crash-prone computers ever built is that reliability has never been a high priority — either for the industry or for users. [Cover story: April 1998] Why Mainframes

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