In his essay, In an Open-Source Society, Innovating by the Seat of Our Pants, Joichi Ito says, "The ethos of the Internet is that everyone should have the freedom to connect…
Digital rights management has a long history of not quite working, failing to stop piracy, and sometimes punishing legitimate users (and owners) of digital media. But has it…
Monica Potts has an interesting piece at The American Prospect about selling openness and the idea of sharing. It begins, In the late 1990s, when Robin Chase and her co…
If you missed Clay Shirky's Open Your World Forum Webcast last week, you may have missed his observation about how new forms of communication succeed or fail. The initial uses…
If you do a google search of "Occupy Wall St."+"open source," you'll find a lot of interesting reading. While there is some discussion of the technology and techniques used by…
Collaboration is effective. Human survival depends on it, and great human achievements stand in testament. But anyone who has sat on a committee, organized a community, or led…
If you are lucky, it never ends. You just keep building and building. The work is never complete, but sustained shared effort over time yields useful results.
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If you are lucky, it never ends. You just keep building and building. The work is never complete, but sustained shared effort over time yields useful results.
how you define open source.
There are the principles and practices, which are very old....and then there is the term which is fairly new.
The first category really just means "always" or "forever."