History for OpenSourceIncidentals

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"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.