The Dawn Of The Age of Open Source 4.0
Much like the 5th Dimension tried to herald a new era of harmony and understanding into our collective awareness back in the 60's with the Age of Aquarius, Matthew Aslett and the 451 Group are heralding a new era in open source that could become a "golden age" of open source.
Aslett calls it Open Source 4.0. I know, don't you just hate the 2.0, 3.0 names. But indulge me for a second here and lets run with it. In order to understand why Aslett calls this open source 4.0 you need to understand what 1, 2 and 3.0 were. According Aslett here are the prior eras of open source:
Open source 1.0 was characterized by software developed by communities of individuals and academia, with key projects including Apache, GNU, the Linux kernel, PostgreSQL and BSD Unix.
Open source 2.0 was characterized by vendors beginning to engage with those existing developer communities, specifically the various Linux distributors that emerged, as well as the involvement in Linux, Apache and other projects by systems vendors such as IBM, Sun and HP.
Seeing the opportunity to disrupt existing markets with open source licensing a group of entrepreneurs created the vendor-dominated open source development/distribution projects that would come to epitomize open source 3.0: MySQL, JBoss et al.
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