[Sigia-l] Rating software

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...Carnegie Mellon University, Intel and SpikeSource, a company that
supports and tests corporate open-source projects, have devised a rating
system intended to reduce confusion and guesswork in evaluating such
software. The initiative, Business Readiness Ratings, is to be announced
today at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Ore.

The rating system, the sponsors say, will employ an open-source model with
scores determined by those who use certain programs and contribute their
judgments. The idea can be seen as a software version of the Zagat survey of
restaurants - rankings determined by customers.

The rating system has 12 categories, including functionality, usability,
quality, security, documentation and technical support. Each category is to
be rated 1 to 5. There will also be filtering tools so a potential corporate
user can specify its most important considerations.

Rating System Will Evaluate Free Software - New York Times
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/01/technology/01open.html>

Business Readiness Rating - Home
<http://www.openbrr.org/>

Will this work?
Is this how apps should be rated?

Ziya
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