When Is More Open Source Too Much?
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Serdar Yegulalp, writing in InformationWeek's Open Source blog, investigates recent claims that open source often offers too much choice. His conclusions: "I'd rather see more effort devoted to aiding people intelligently choose from existing open source solutions than trying to narrow down the total number of choices. If one of open source's big advantages is the way it stimulates plurality of choice to begin with, why give that up?"