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The Social Structure of Open Source Development

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the house-of-cards-and-cigarettes dept.

HulkProtector1 writes "NewsForge has published an interview Tom Chance conducted with Andreas Brand, a sociologist who is studying the free software world. Read the full interview to learn more about Andreas' views on KDE's development model, volunteer recruitment and retention, motivation, work distribution and more. "

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  1. Re:While we're talking about the social structure. by mangu · · Score: 0, Flamebait
    her mentally ill and drug addicted clients are easier to work with than the average alpha geek


    What a surprise. Losers who totally fucked up in everything they tried are less arrogant than people who stand at the top of a successful, well paid, career?


    Your girlfriend seems to be have a rather intolerant personality. She needs to work with people that are clearly inferior to her, because she can't stand the sugestion that anyone could be superior to herself. If she can't stand the occasional banter from colleagues with good humor she surely isn't fit to work with geeks. Or do you think it's easy, from a human point of view, to be called a "geek" or a "nerd", both pejorative terms, just because you can understand the finer concepts in computer science that eludes the majority of humans?