http://boldlyopen.com/2006/12/06/baitware-betaware-badgeware-oh-my/ To boldly muse about Open Source Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:18:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://boldlyopen.com/2006/12/06/baitware-betaware-badgeware-oh-my/comment-page-1/#comment-42246 Elzeviro » Open Development: diversity matters Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:27:25 +0000 http://www.rabellino.it/blog/?p=189#comment-42246 [...] I’m happy to see Kaj agrees that Open Source should be about community as well, and I applaud to what MySQL has been doing to get external developers involved. Still, I have to stomp my feet somewhat and insist on neutrality as a main component of Open Development (or whatchamacallit, for that matter). The keyword here is diversity, as I mentioned before. Sustainable Open Source, built upon the classical advantages of multiple eyeballs, absence of vendor lock-in, distributed innovation and cooperation among developers needs a community of technical interests, with participation being driven by diverse objectives who happen to share a common goal. A diverse community drives innovation, acts on technical merits rather than business objectives, and protects from orphaned/abandoned code or from whatever might happen to a single company backing a project. Diversity is good. Diversity matters. [...] [...] I’m happy to see Kaj agrees that Open Source should be about community as well, and I applaud to what MySQL has been doing to get external developers involved. Still, I have to stomp my feet somewhat and insist on neutrality as a main component of Open Development (or whatchamacallit, for that matter). The keyword here is diversity, as I mentioned before. Sustainable Open Source, built upon the classical advantages of multiple eyeballs, absence of vendor lock-in, distributed innovation and cooperation among developers needs a community of technical interests, with participation being driven by diverse objectives who happen to share a common goal. A diverse community drives innovation, acts on technical merits rather than business objectives, and protects from orphaned/abandoned code or from whatever might happen to a single company backing a project. Diversity is good. Diversity matters. [...]

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