Up from Alchemy
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hree hundred years ago, alchemy became chemistry. Arcane art became science when its practitioners abandoned secrecy to embrace process transparency and peer review. Today, software engineering is undergoing a similar transition, moving from closed to open source development. Only when we complete this transition, adopting open source development as a normal practice, can software development assume its place as a mature engineering discipline.
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