2nd OSS Engineering Workshop Papers Online

josephfeller writes: "'Meeting Challenges and Surviving Success: The 2nd Workshop on Open Source Software Engineering' was held last week at the 24th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2002), in Orlando, FL. The 15 workshop position papers and the workshop introduction are available for free download."

Re:interesting

[WickedLogic]

Software should be inexpensive. It is the people that keep it running that are expensive. No matter how easy/automated software gets someone has to make and keep it that way.

Re:interesting

[stoolpigeon]

Programmers, like any other profession, will be paid based on supply and demand. There will always be a need for custom software. (I would love to see what percentage of software engineers work on products intended for resale - I bet it is lower than everyone thinks)
Open source, better tools that make programming easier, etc. will not destroy the profession as there will always be a need for qualified professionals to do difficult work.

On the other hand - it may make it more difficult for those w/a very narrow background or small skill sets that are easily mastered by others. And what is wrong w/that?

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