It would perhaps be natural to think that Singapore and in fact most of the eastern and far eastern economies would understand the implied message of continuous, rapid and incremental innovation that is the open source way.
The fact that businesses don't end up pushing these messages across firmly enough is more of a loss as therefore communities of open source practice do not get built up.
I wish you'd follow up this article with another that talks about possible step-wise recommendations about how this can be changed.
Although the article didn't add by way of insight all was redeemed with this one line - "Although the principle of openness may have at times taken a toll on our productivity, it also helped foster employees who were brilliant spokespersons for the company and brilliant decision makers on their own, all the while being amazingly passionate about their jobs and the mission of MySQL."
A strong compass on transparency and openness builds trust. That's a vital and mostly overlooked ingredient in keeping teams, projects and products going.
It would perhaps be natural to think that Singapore and in fact most of the eastern and far eastern economies would understand the implied message of continuous, rapid and incremental innovation that is the open source way.
The fact that businesses don't end up pushing these messages across firmly enough is more of a loss as therefore communities of open source practice do not get built up.
I wish you'd follow up this article with another that talks about possible step-wise recommendations about how this can be changed.
Oh ! Good to see you writing again :)