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Ruth Holloway has been a system administrator and software developer for a long, long time, getting her professional start on a VAX 11/780, way back when. She spent a lot of her career (so far) serving the technology needs of libraries, and has been a contributor since 2008 to the Koha open source library automation suite. Ruth is currently a Perl developer and project lead at Clearbuilt. You can find out more about Ruth's passions and career at her site. She's a mother, grandmother, wife, artist, public speaker, and mommy to the cutest little dog you'll ever meet.
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In my poking around, I did find some notes that it's not *completely* up to standard. The GnuCOBOL team makes a point of saying that they do not *guarantee* any particular level of standards-compliance, that they do work for as much as they can; it's a small niche, and they don't have a lot of developers working on it.
Proprietary compilers, naturally, have a solidly-vested interest in maximum compliance, particularly if it lets them talk smack about community-driven efforts. But it is those communities that Opensource.com is interested in. :)
"Given enough eyes, all bugs are shallow." While I've been in the IT trade--not just journalism--for a great many years, I'd never spotted that distinction. Thank you for the note; I've made a correction to the article.