The Development Cycle

Big corporations like Microsoft and Apple are finally learning a lesson that open source developers have known for years, release early and release often. Yearly releases of the Apple OS has become a staple and expectation of their clientele over the past few years. Microsoft Office 365 is a constantly changing and updating software that users can subscribe to in order to receive the latest and greatest. Yet open source developers have adhered to this principle since the development of Linux and even earlier. Consumers of a product want to see their feedback and their ideas change and shape what they use; this is the idea to which the "new" development cycle of software companies is accommodating. Agile or bazaar, whatever you want to call it, is a change and one that is for the betterment of software.