Sunday, July 12, 2009

Open Source Key Points

Equipotentiality – proposes that although contributors skills are necessarily varied, all participants do have the potential to make a unique contribution, and must be invited through the design and structure of the shared project to do so where this is most appropriate.

All contributions to an open source or produsage project are evaluated by the community at large

Depends crucially on the efficiency of evaluation processes themselves

Contributions must be granular

The basic law of open source is that debugging is parallelizable

Long tail

Ad hoc decisions

Leaders come and go - driven by content

Forking – same code; different product

Quote of the day: “Unloved software can’t be built using Open Source methods.” Ha ha.

Is it a contradiction, then, when he says, “One way to get people to do things they wouldn’t do for love is to pay them.”

Most widely used free platform is SourceForge.net

Much open source software produsage itself builds at least on initial material produced in a traditional mode.

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