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writes David Heinemeier Hansson, the CTO at 37signals and creator of the open-source framework Ruby on Rails. DHH says it “occasionally irks” him to see companies failing to contribute to Ruby on ...

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A long, long time ago, I built websites by hand using the vi editor to write HTML. It was hard. Then along came NoteTab and Bluefish, which made writing and editing HTML easier but still a pain.

The idea of open-source software seems kind of nuts. Millions (billions?) of lines of code doing all kinds of amazing things and available for free? That sounds too good to be true. But it is true.