The Open Source Paradigm Shift

Tim O'Reilly has written up a talk he has given about the open source paradigm shift, which he describes as fundamental and long-term changes in the technology world brought on by the widespread adoption of Free and open source software.

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Alternate viewpoint:

[Anonymous Coward]

I think paradigms should be outlawed.

Who's with me on this?

Re:Alternate viewpoint:

[kfg]

I think paradigms should be outlawed.

I'm not sure that outlawing them is the answer, but I do believe we should be working hard at advancing trinadigm technology.

KFG

Re:Alternate viewpoint:

[tracon5]

why dont they just say a change in the overall shape of ***

every time i hear paradigm all i can think is TPS report

*mutter* *mutter* *buzzword* *mutter*

[Laz7]

hey ... as long as this paradigm shift helps develop synergy and foster an environment of positive collegiality utlizing a digital framework, I'm in.

Re:*mutter* *mutter* *buzzword* *mutter*

[DeepHurtn!]

But is it proactive?

*pop*

[sirboxalot]

What was that sound? A paradigm shifting without a clutch.

Yes

[Anonymous Coward]

Because Open Source Copyleft GNU/Free Software has no use for buzzwords.

Buzzwords are just so Old Media, and we're too libre for that. We work in "Internet Time".

Must... stop... cliche...

[mog007]

Well, I for one, welcome our new Tux overlords.

Re:There's a lot of words that men in suits use.

[Kierthos]

The problem is the use of the word 'paradigm' or the phrase 'paradigm shift' when it is obviously out of place. (I seem to recall at least one Dilbert strip on the subject.)

Furthermore, I recall, with horror, having to sit through several pointless meetings in Senior Design (for Mechanical Engineering), listen to one of the larval marketing jackholes say how his project was a new paradigm about forty times per meeting. It gets old.

Finally, if I am extremely lucky, I will never have to communicate anything to the suits other then the occassional grunt, glare, or "out of the way, you're between me and the coffee pot." I have no desire to learn their bizarre moon-language.

Kierthos

Re:There's a lot of words that men in suits use.

[mek2600]

Am I the only person who noticed the irony of your "I have no desire to learn their bizarre moon-language." quote and the sig you use on your posts? :)

Re:Free software = another stepping stone of human

[Boronx]

Think about kids from small towns, many of those places don't even have libraries. Now they can read about science and liturature and other subjects only aviable to historians just 20 years ago.

They could, but instead they're siphoning up tenticle porn at a megabit/sec. And you can't get that from any small town library.

Another Alternate viewpoint:

[ScrewMaster]

Who cares. Paradigms only run about twenty cents each anyway.