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 Open-Source software (OSS) matters because it is robust, stable, safe and scalable. Most of the internet and most new corporate applications run on OSS. Linux won the server war (IBM™). OSS dominates the middleware field. OSS applications challenge established vendors everywhere. Major organizations like IBM, Sun™, AT&T™, SAP™ or MIT contribute patents, coders and money to OSS Projects. Google runs on "hundreds of thousands" of clustered instances of Linux and MySQL.

The reliability of OSS is a direct result of its highly effective and resource efficient development technique: OSS projects are initiated, developed and maintained publicly by the users who need them. High modularity allows parallel development. Quality is controlled and maintained through self-interest, peer review and peer pressure. Each user's PC is a new testing environment. The more co-developers, the faster the software evolves. (An estimated 6 million developers contribute to OSS projects - over 1 million in North America.) Stable production versions are available alongside betas and code integration happens frequently so that bugs can be fixed sooner and more easily.
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