This is an excellent model that shows how sharing can benefit enterprises that utilize common or open resources. This, I believe, is Confucianism in practice. Confucianism is both a practical and ethical philosophy that encourages the cultivation of virtue and the maintenance of ethics. Without that balance human avarice will seek to secure or own the common resource to the detriment of other members of society, thereby inviting government intervention.
The following is quoted from Wikipedia:
"The core of Confucianism is humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucianism focuses on the cultivation of virtue and maintenance of ethics, the most basic of which are ren, yi, and li. Ren is an obligation of altruism and humaneness for other individuals within a community, yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good, and li is a system of norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act within a community."
Sounds like the Open Source methodology to me. Great post and metaphor.
Many of the stated obstacles can be overcome more easily if one can articulate the purpose of collaboration. Like any opportunity there are risks to be evaluated and resources and timelines to be calculated. With strong leadership propelling the purpose, goals and objectives and a well constructed plan to achieve and measure them then there is no reason for collaboration projects to fail.
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This is an excellent model that shows how sharing can benefit enterprises that utilize common or open resources. This, I believe, is Confucianism in practice. Confucianism is both a practical and ethical philosophy that encourages the cultivation of virtue and the maintenance of ethics. Without that balance human avarice will seek to secure or own the common resource to the detriment of other members of society, thereby inviting government intervention.
The following is quoted from Wikipedia:
"The core of Confucianism is humanism, the belief that human beings are teachable, improvable and perfectible through personal and communal endeavour especially including self-cultivation and self-creation. Confucianism focuses on the cultivation of virtue and maintenance of ethics, the most basic of which are ren, yi, and li. Ren is an obligation of altruism and humaneness for other individuals within a community, yi is the upholding of righteousness and the moral disposition to do good, and li is a system of norms and propriety that determines how a person should properly act within a community."
Sounds like the Open Source methodology to me. Great post and metaphor.
Many of the stated obstacles can be overcome more easily if one can articulate the purpose of collaboration. Like any opportunity there are risks to be evaluated and resources and timelines to be calculated. With strong leadership propelling the purpose, goals and objectives and a well constructed plan to achieve and measure them then there is no reason for collaboration projects to fail.