If you haven't already read my open source community manifesto over at Release 1.0 your life remains unfilled. In a terrifying exercise of searching the blogosphere I found a huge number of links both to the report and other things I have written recently and was overwhelmed by the efficiency of new blog search engines like IceRocket offers. Anyway, Zack at MySQL gave the report a thumbs up and suggested that the very reason that MySQL and open source in general are revolutionary is because of the community involvement. This is something I completely agree with (and a point I thought came across in the article) and would argue that open source is not only the most important technology movement of the last ten years but also the most important social movement. With the exception of the punk rock analogy (see Release 1.0 article) that I so enjoy, I can't find another example of an instance where community triumphs over big business.
Anybody have another example? Email me openresource(at)infoworld.com
Posted by Dave Rosenberg on July 31, 2005 11:01 AM
