How Friendly Is Open Source?
silicon.com writer and IT analyst Martin Brampton says the open source movement isn’t as collaboration-friendly as its proponents would like you to think. How can that be, when open source development is all about sharing code and helping each other fix bugs or develop programs? It’s all in the characteristics of the individual developers, he says.
Those goals, coupled with these characteristics, don’t lend themselves to a team mentality, in his opinion. First, he says, developers tend to “align themselves with a particular community” and distance themselves from, or “demonize” others. Moreover, most projects that don’t have corporate sponsorship are controlled by a handful of people, so that even within those communities cooperation is limited. And those that are corporate controlled run into trouble as soon as income starts coming in.
He concludes by saying that if those involved in open source would practice more of what they preach, there’s no telling how far the technology could go.
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