Rishab Aiyer Ghosh on Thu, 18 May 2000 13:17:20 +0200 (CEST) |
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RE: <nettime> OFSS01: First Orbiten Free Software Survey |
> again - i don't agree. the dichotomy that you set up between bazaar and > cathedral - i may be misguided or uninformed about the standard reading of > these concepts - seems too strict, because even if a specific project is > run by one or two people, they are most likely in contact with many others > who feed them ideas, critique, maybe even bits of code. the organisational > structure of who is formally involved in which projects does not > necessarily reflect the multiplicity of social relations in which it is well, we're not looking (yet) at critiquing and bug-fixing. as for ideas and other less well-defined forms of interaction, one can say the same of _real-world_ "cathedralesque" development teams, e.g. at microsoft, who certainly have a lot of useful interaction with other developers outside. for our purposes we focus on a stricter definition of contribution that does not include ideas and inspiration as much as contribution in the form of writing code. -rg # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net