Why are people contributing to open source projects?
Picture of Eric taken by Jerone2
Sitting at a lunch table somewhere close to the Moscone Center in San Francisco, people around me are discussing crowdsourcing and why people are contributing to open source projects. Some of them never read Eric Raymond and I’m taking the opportunity to point to open versions of his seminal books: The Cathedral and the Bazaar, The Magic Cauldron and particularly Homesteading the Noosphere, where he discusses the mechanics of the open source movement. Essential reading for everybody interested in open source, open data, open standards and open access. The articles have been published as a very nice book by O’Reilly.
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