Re: Re: RE: Re: brad de long textbook

[Ian Murray]

>
> The "open source" aspect of it is especially interesting. It has
> proven very possible to design and maintain excellent computer
> programs with a small charismatic core directing and assessing the
> voluntary contributions of a floating horde of part-time
> contributors. Even though the gift exchange model gets only 1/n of
> each contributor's full-time effort, if you can get m >> n
> contributors through the internet--and if you can organize their
> contributions--you have a powerful programming team. Is there
> something specific about software that makes the open-source
> management problem particularly easy? Or can we look forward to the
> development of similar collective freeware intellectual efforts in
> other areas as well?
>
> I don't know the answer. I think it is a very interesting question.
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Most definitely, but what are you gonna do when genetic algorithms do it for ya' by
2010?

Ian