OpenSourceIncidentals

"The Cathedral and the Bazaar" emphasizes sociological bases for the open source movement, i'm interested in process-oriented forces behind it. This is a place for me to collect some of those things.

• Ultimately, i consider the facility computer communications offer for collaboration to be a quantum leap, enabling a qualitative improvement on the returns that a group of otherwise unrelated people can get in unhindered sharing the results of their intellectual efforts, such that the payoff is sufficient to society without mediating commerce.

• I wonder whether insights from the Open Implementation guys would shed any light or way to frame the merits and dynamics of open source collaboration.

• One thing seems most compelling to me, at any rate, the exquisite degree of intertwining of peoples efforts in programming, where everything is built not just on the understandings that others have developed - standing on the shoulders of giants - but actually implemented with and on and within the artifacts of those efforts.