What’s Open Source and how does it improve Pharos?
Rather than establishing a closed centralized model of development, Pharos borrows both philosophy and technology from the Open Source movement in computer software and operating systems development. Open Source encourages many different perspectives and agendas to percolate simultaneously during the development process. Pharos adopts completely the principles of the Open Source movement which, in part, include: • Plan to throw one away. You will, anyhow. • Release early. Release often. And listen to your users. • Often the most striking and innovative solutions come from realizing that your concept of the problem was wrong. • Treating your users as co-developers is your least-hassle route to rapid improvement and effective debugging. • The next best thing to having good ideas is recognizing good ideas from your users. HBN is committed to engaging many users in helping to develop Pharos in an ongoing, iterative way. You will have the opportunity to become part of an online community es
