Welcome to Opensville, Population Zero
Nestled between Proprietary and Freedomberg, Opensville is a utopia. Everyone who lives in the adjacent cities spends their free time in Opensville. The parks are beautiful, the shopping is amazing, and the nights are pure Vegas. Sounds like a great place, huh? One problem: no one actually wants to live there. No one wants to pay the taxes or put in the effort it takes to keep the city running. Welcome to Opensville, population zero.
Wit or truth? Why, a bit of both, of course. There are too many entities taking advantage of open source technology without giving back. Some are literally pillaging the community that butters their bread. How long before we all suffer the effects? If major project contributors were to stop work, how would that affect the industry as a whole?
Let’s use the monitoring segment of systems management as an example.
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On being a resident of opensville
Since I can't wait to see how whurley answers the questions raised by his first post, I can't help but think out loud about some of the things it means to be a near resident of opensville.
While whurley is being all mysterious over there in his blog about opensville (or at the very least, keeping me is suspense about where he is going with that) I wanted to talk a little bit about this place he postulates called "opensville".
Analogy is always tricky of course as it can be extended too far, but as whurley is a genius, I am sure he'll make it a real place.
I want to start from a general place of saying that I believe that the following is axiomatic:
Open is Better than Closed
Example: The relationships in my life that are the most important and deeply valued are the open ones. The more open the better and deeper the relationship.
In a similar vein, I have a reputation here at the office for being open and honest. People do *not* ask me what I think unless they really want to know. If I know not know, I say that as well. I may be a knowledge generalist, but no one can possibly know everything.
Open is a two way street.
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