A few weeks ago, I jotted down some thoughts about (false) expectations made on FLOSS/F/OSS, something that I wish I had more time to write about (teaching and other things seem to take most of my time these days). But before this year turned into the next one, I wanted to pass on a few additional (and similar though they enter into different territory) thoughts by O’Reilly editor, Andy Oram: From Open Source Software to Open Culture: Three Misunderstandings
April 8, 2009
From Open Source Software to Open Culture: Three Misunderstandings
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thanks for that interesting article
Comment by tim — April 9, 2009 @ 6:01 am
Humm… The article is an interesting read indeed… However, I find it hard to agree in many points with the author. He talks with a good understanding, of course, of the social movement behind FS/OS/FLOSS/whatever-you-want-to-call-it, but his analysis seems to be too sided towards the OS arguments (i.e. highlighting dependability over all else) – True arguments, yes, but when trying to bridge over to what he calls Open Culture, he is IMHO missing a bit on the set of values that have grown around the movement, and are fundamental to understand the bridging over to open culture. Yet, he addresses them superficially (i.e. stating that wikis and collaborative music do track authorship).
Comment by Gunnar — April 12, 2009 @ 1:10 pm