On 10/19/13 10:00 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
I think Open is about synergy. I do something for free, you do too,
and the synergy of the multiple systems becomes a positive sum game,
and I can do a lot more via the collaboration.
A project that is open can advance on many fronts at once without
top-down coordination. The challenge for a manager (or benevolent
dictator) of such a project (Wikipedia, Linux) is to learn how to
organize things so that they can get out of the way. Too much planning
puts `locks' on people and decreases concurrency. To little, and
quality may suffer with proliferating redundancy..
Marcus
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