[PLUG-TALK] Open Source Mini-essay

AthlonRob athlonrob at axpr.net
Fri May 6 22:39:12 UTC 2005


Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> I have a *lot* of opinions on the subject, and could belabor people at
> length about them, but in essence open source is a participatory
> experiential process.  Until you've participated, and seen the strengths
> and the weaknesses first hand, it is hard to understand why it works,
> and for what.

Quite true... until you're "in the trenches" working on projects, you
really don't realize quite how well it works - and often how well it
doesn't work.

Rob



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