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Meta-platform to Evaluate Suitability of Open Source Software Solutions

posted by LaminatorX on Monday June 02 2014, @09:16AM   
from the Match-Game dept.

gewg_ writes:

Evaluating whether an open source software package meets the requirements for a specific application, or deciding which package from multiple candidates is the best match, is not an easy task...

A group of nine research institutes, software development firms, and IT companies are building OSSMETER...
The consortium hopes to offer a 90 per cent reduction in the efforts needed to assess the support provided by bug tracking systems and other communication channels, and equally lessen the efforts to monitor and compare solutions.

With FOSS popping up everywhere you look, it's good to see that there is an organized effort to assure that everybody is getting the best tool available..

• This sounds a lot like Ohloh This sounds a lot like Ohloh (Score: 1) by jondo on Monday June 02 2014, @01:59PM

  by jondo (3975) on Monday June 02 2014, @01:59PM (#50212)

  I wonder how this distinguishs itself from https://ohloh.net/ [ohloh.net].

• Ohloh (Black Duck Software, Inc.) Ohloh (Black Duck Software, Inc.) (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 02 2014, @05:08PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 02 2014, @05:08PM (#50298)

  Black Duck Software, Inc. [techrights.org] is an anti-FOSS operation.
  Any time you see that (one-man) operation "advocating" for FOSS, you have to ask "What is the ulterior motive?"
  Mostly, that M$ proxy [google.com] is just involved in Openwashing. [google.com]

  -- gewg_

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  • Re:Ohloh (Black Duck Software, Inc.) (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04 2014, @01:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 04 2014, @01:48PM (#51080)

    Thanks a bunch, I for one was under the wrong impression.

    I think this speaks volumes. [doloop.com]

    Also look how Black Duck tries to scare people about copyleft licenses. [blackducksoftware.com]

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