http://boldlyopen.com/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/ To boldly muse about Open Source Fri, 23 Jul 2010 14:18:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://boldlyopen.com/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-74326 Gianugo Rabellino: AGPL: another nail in the diversity coffin | Server software Mon, 04 Jun 2007 00:53:20 +0000 http://www.rabellino.it/blog/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/#comment-74326 [...] Unfortunately, as much as I generally agree with Capo, this statement is both unfair and dangerous. It is unfair, because most of what Fabrizio is calling leeches (Google, for one) are indeed giving a lot back to the community (in kind, cash and liberally-licensed code, in the Google case). It is dangerous because we need a diverse ecosystem to thrive, which means we need leeches and parasites as well. Everyone plays a role in the environment, as the traditional software industry has known for ages: every Tom, Dick and Harry over there is publicly fighting piracy, yet it doesn’t take much to have them admit they just love how piracy eventually turns free riders into paying customers. The value of a free customer is less than negligible, and even Tim O’Reilly agrees. [...] [...] Unfortunately, as much as I generally agree with Capo, this statement is both unfair and dangerous. It is unfair, because most of what Fabrizio is calling leeches (Google, for one) are indeed giving a lot back to the community (in kind, cash and liberally-licensed code, in the Google case). It is dangerous because we need a diverse ecosystem to thrive, which means we need leeches and parasites as well. Everyone plays a role in the environment, as the traditional software industry has known for ages: every Tom, Dick and Harry over there is publicly fighting piracy, yet it doesn’t take much to have them admit they just love how piracy eventually turns free riders into paying customers. The value of a free customer is less than negligible, and even Tim O’Reilly agrees. [...]

]]> http://boldlyopen.com/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-74255 Elzeviro » AGPL: another nail in the diversity coffin Sun, 03 Jun 2007 21:13:31 +0000 http://www.rabellino.it/blog/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/#comment-74255 [...] Unfortunately, as much as I generally agree with Capo, this statement is both unfair and dangerous. It is unfair, because most of what Fabrizio is calling leeches (Google, for one) are indeed giving a lot back to the community (in kind, cash and liberally-licensed code, in the Google case). It is dangerous because we need a diverse ecosystem to thrive, which means we need leeches and parasites as well. Everyone plays a role in the environment, as the traditional software industry has known for ages: every Tom, Dick and Harry over there is publicly fighting piracy, yet it doesn’t take much to have them admit they just love how piracy eventually turns free riders into paying customers. The value of a free customer is less than negligible, and even Tim O’Reilly agrees. [...] [...] Unfortunately, as much as I generally agree with Capo, this statement is both unfair and dangerous. It is unfair, because most of what Fabrizio is calling leeches (Google, for one) are indeed giving a lot back to the community (in kind, cash and liberally-licensed code, in the Google case). It is dangerous because we need a diverse ecosystem to thrive, which means we need leeches and parasites as well. Everyone plays a role in the environment, as the traditional software industry has known for ages: every Tom, Dick and Harry over there is publicly fighting piracy, yet it doesn’t take much to have them admit they just love how piracy eventually turns free riders into paying customers. The value of a free customer is less than negligible, and even Tim O’Reilly agrees. [...]

]]> http://boldlyopen.com/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/comment-page-1/#comment-42443 Kaj Arnö’s blog » Blog Archive » Why the Architecture of Participation is compatible with commercial interests Sat, 24 Mar 2007 08:26:53 +0000 http://www.rabellino.it/blog/2007/03/23/open-development-diversity-matters/#comment-42443 [...] In his well-written blog entry Open Development: Diversity matters, Gianugo Rabellino quickly replied to my blog entry from yesterday on Defining “Participatory Open Source”. He sees plenty of common ground in our reasoning, but defends the existence of requirements for neutrality in the definition. I agree with nearly all of his reasoning for why neutrality is important for the development of a community of contributors, but I draw partially different conclusions. [...] [...] In his well-written blog entry Open Development: Diversity matters, Gianugo Rabellino quickly replied to my blog entry from yesterday on Defining “Participatory Open Source”. He sees plenty of common ground in our reasoning, but defends the existence of requirements for neutrality in the definition. I agree with nearly all of his reasoning for why neutrality is important for the development of a community of contributors, but I draw partially different conclusions. [...]

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