Re: Code donations for RPGUI initiative -- WEB400

× The internal search function is temporarily non-functional. The current search engine is no longer viable and we are researching alternatives.
As a stop gap measure, we are using Google's custom search engine service.
If you know of an easy to use, open source, search engine ... please contact support@midrange.com.

Nathan Andelin skrev:

I think I understand companies like Red Hat & Novell which are at the top of multi-level marketing pyramids. I understand the appeal of open-source to Red Hat wanabees. But I don't understand the appeal of open-source for coders who actually create the IP and donate it to wanabee's repositories.

I have found Eric Raymonds writings very enlightening. He has been groundbreaking in putting words on things that were so basic that either you intutively understood it, or you didn't have ANY idea at all, which Richard Stallman is a prime example of.

He wrote The Cathedral and The Bazaar which made Open Source understandable to non-programmers (quite a feat), Settling the Noosphere (about Open Source ownership projectwise, not legal wise), and The Magic Cauldron (about the economics of OpenS ource).

It is the latter I would suggest you read. I took a look at it here, and frankly I do not understand it fully, but perhaps you do as I believe many of the things are culturally American due to capitalism and all.

http://catb.org/~esr/writings/magic-cauldron/

This mailing list archive is Copyright 1997-2024 by midrange.com and David Gibbs as a compilation work. Use of the archive is restricted to research of a business or technical nature. Any other uses are prohibited. Full details are available on our policy page. If you have questions about this, please contact [javascript protected email address].

Operating expenses for this site are earned using the Amazon Associate program and Google Adsense.