http://linuxtoday.com/developer/2005022100126OSDV
"Leaders from three separate but related -- and incredibly successful -- free/open source projects agree: If you want the project to move to the next level, let go and let the community take over. We asked Larry Wall, creator of Perl; Brian Behlendorf, the Apache Project leader; and Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, for their thoughts on why this happens and how they and their projects have fared as a result." Of course these software developers are special (not like HO's software person friend), and what they do is not open space anyway - or is it? Oh, yes, 4 principles and 1 law would be a way to check how "open spacey" is software developement. I don't know if there's a nice 1-to-1 mapping of "ways to put it" between principles and law and how people express these profound truths in software developement. In any case, here are some of the expressions common in free-open source software developement (Eric S Raymand has written extensively about it in "the cathedral and the bazaar" etc): - "developers scratch their own itch" - "when it's ready, it's ready" - "release (code) early, release often" - you're free to use, modify, make copies (of the code) - a thousand eyeballs discover "bugs" (in the code) - contributors are free to contribute - mantainers and coders are free to "fork" (ie create a different branch) In software there are "benevolent dictators" (Linus Torvalds is said to be one) - would those be the people who write their issues and their names on The Wall? Lucas ______________________________________________ Renovamos el Correo Yahoo!: ¡250 MB GRATIS! Nuevos servicios, más seguridad http://correo.yahoo.es * * ========================================================== osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu ------------------------------ To subscribe, unsubscribe, change your options, view the archives of osl...@listserv.boisestate.edu: http://listserv.boisestate.edu/archives/oslist.html To learn about OpenSpaceEmailLists and OSLIST FAQs: http://www.openspaceworld.org/oslist
