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The best helmsmen stand on shore
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| Bruce Byfield is completely unaware of this
| too. In his latest misguided rambling 'Open
| Source Projects and the Meritocracy Myth'
| he lists a number of major projects with
| paid developers. As if meritocracy is and
| should only be applied there.
|
| First, he obviously doesn't understand the
| full concept of meritocracy. Meritocracy in
| FOSS is about merits, not just "who is the
| best". If a paid developer can spend eight
| straight hours per day and provides most of
| the code he will obviously rise in the
| ranks, a fact that is clearly supported by
| the findings of the FLOSS polls, that
| infamous report that everybody likes to
| quote and nobody obviously read.
| Furthermore, in our capitalist world those
| who pay call the shots. The privilege that
| the community has is that if it doesn't
| like it, it can fork. Something that Eben
| Moglen recently confirmed.
|
| [...]
|
| Meritocracy is not the guiding principle of
| the FOSS ideology. It simply works best for
| these thousands of unpaid volunteers you're
| so eager to insult and attack on each and
| every opportunity you get. Proof? Here you
| got it. Source? FLOSS polls!
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http://thebeezspeaks.blogspot.com/2009/12/best-helmsmen-stand-on-shore.html
Episode 128: Beam it up, F-SPOT!
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| You can participate in episode planning in
| the Wave. It is open for everybody.
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http://meetthegimp.org/episode-128-beam-it-up-f-spot/
Related:
Could Open Source Lead to a Meritocratic Search Engine?
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| Whatever search engine the Wikia company produced, it would
| probably have such a large following among the built-in
| open-source and Wikipedia fan base, that traffic wouldn't
| be a problem -- companies at the top of popular search
| results would definitely benefit.
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http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/14/1355252&from=rss
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