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Organic Software
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| Some people do ask whether the farmers' market is
| scalable - surely having a big corporation planning
| all the production is better? But no, each week the
| market is full of produce produced by local people who
| love growing it, and customers turn up to sell in
| proportion to the number of people who show up to buy.
| No-one seemed to be struggling to make a living. The
| stallholder had never heard of OpenOffice.org or
| Firefox, but easily got the idea that software made by
| a community could be great and that having everyone
| doing the part they can for themselves means there's
| no need to have a big corporation wanting you to pay.
| There are no hidden ingredients either, and despite
| the lack of pesticides there seem to be fewer bugs...
|
| Open source is "organic software" and its time has
| come. He's going home to his organic produce and to
| look for "open source software" and "open office" on
| the web. Me - I'm reflecting on Software Freedom Day
| as I prepare my trout.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/organic_software
Recent:
You'll get closer to the source
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| Mr Phipps does see a push towards open source. "It's a response to the shift
| in society caused by the internet. It's a shift away from centralised
| control."
|
| But developing applications, whether open source or not, can still be a rocky
| road. MrPhipps has learnt that over planning isn't a good thing.
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http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/biztech/case-studies--profiles/youll-get-closer-to-the-source/2008/09/22/1221935545765.html
http://tinyurl.com/5xwmgu
Community Roles
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| These are:
|
| * Originators (originating co-developers) - people who co-develop a
| particular Free software commons using open source licenses and norms;
| * Extenders (extending co-developers) - people who co-develop software
| that
| builds on or aggregates the work of Originators, for example making
| extensions, plug-ins, localisations and distributions;
| * Deployer-developers - people who take the work of Initiators and
| Extenders and configure and customise them for deployment;
| * Users - people who use - and often pay for - the work of
| Deployer-developers and put it to productive use.
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http://blogs.sun.com/webmink/entry/community_roles
Interview with Simon Phipps
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| Phipps: I think that there is a huge overlap in those worlds. One
| of the interesting things you discover when you run an OpenSolaris
| distribution like Nexenta is, my goodness, it looks just like Ubuntu.
| And you know, there's a really good reason for that: because it is
| Ubuntu, but it's got a Solaris kernel in it.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9624
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